A Möbius strip is a fiber bundle which looks locally (i.e., over a connected proper subset of its base space) like the corresponding part of a cylinder S¹×[0,1] (a Möbius strip and a cylinder have isomorphic base spaces). A Klein bottle is a fiber bundle which looks locally like the corresponding part of a torus S¹×S¹ (again they could be thought of as sharing the same base space S¹; cutting out even a single point of that base space makes the cut Klein bottle isomorphic to the cut torus).

In general, a fiber bundle consists of a set of mutually disjoint fibers “over” a base space, which indexes the fibers; there is a copy of some fiber on top of, or projecting (“canonically”) onto each point of the base space.

In the 1960s, some physicists including E. Lubkin and A. Trautman recognized that interaction potentials can be represented by connections on principal fiber bundles. In 1975, T. T. Wu and C. N. Yang used the fiber bundle method to solve a problem on magnetic monopoles.

One proposed general model for high-level scientific data uses fiber bundles, which Butler and Pendley [22] proposed in 1989.[…] A fiber bundle is the Cartesian product of the fibers and the base space; in other words, it is the collection of valid data ranges for the base space.

Finding the right notion of fiber bundle for diffeology [Igl85] has been a question raised by the study of the irrational torus T_α [Dolg85].

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