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Stream: Is there code for X?

Topic: Classification of Principal Bundles


Gad Wiseman (Dec 14 2025 at 14:50):

Is there code for the bijection between principal G-bundles and homotopy classes of maps to BG?

Michael Rothgang (Dec 14 2025 at 16:31):

Did you try searching for this yourself? What was the outcome of your attempts?

Junyan Xu (Dec 14 2025 at 16:51):

How do we define BG in mathlib? Probably this?

Dominic Steinitz (Dec 14 2025 at 17:04):

I didn't think we had a definition of a principal G-bundle?

Junyan Xu (Dec 14 2025 at 17:11):

If G is discrete then we are about to have it: https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4/pull/7596/files#r2616225613
The definition is close to this MO answer.

Michael Rothgang (Dec 14 2025 at 22:04):

Dominic Steinitz said:

I didn't think we had a definition of a principal G-bundle?

But you're (loosely) working on this, right?

Dominic Steinitz (Jan 05 2026 at 16:10):

Michael Rothgang said:

Dominic Steinitz said:

I didn't think we had a definition of a principal G-bundle?

But you're (loosely) working on this, right?

Yes and now that I have proved the existence of a Riemannian metric, I can give it my full attention. The first thing is to decide which definition we should use. Maybe I should make a list of the ones I know.


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