Obstructions to the section problem in a fibration with a weak formal base.
The orbit projection of a proper -manifold is a fibration if and only if all points in are regular. Under additional assumptions we show that is a quasifibration if and only if all points are regular. We get a full answer in the equivariant category: is a -quasifibration if and only if all points are regular.
Let be a source locally trivial proper Lie groupoid such that each orbit is of finite type. The orbit projection is a fibration if and only if is regular.
We show that an orientable fibration whose fiber has a homotopy type of homogeneous space with rank is totally non homologous to zero for rational coefficients. The Jacobian formed by invariant polynomial under the Weyl group of plays a key role in the proof. We also show that it is valid for mod. coefficients if does not divide the order of the Weyl group of .
In rational homotopy theory, we show how the homotopy notion of pure fibration arises in a natural way. It can be proved that some fibrations, with homogeneous spaces as fibre are pure fibrations. Consequences of these results on the operation of a Lie group and the existence of Serre fibrations are given. We also examine various measures of rational triviality for a fibration and compare them with and whithout the hypothesis of pure fibration.