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This should hopefully be a quick and easy answer.
I'm running through Lee's Introduction to Smooth Manifolds to brush up my differential geometry. I love this book, but I've come to something I'm not sure about. He states a result for which the proof is an exercise:
I'm not quite clear on what he means by "constant on each others fibres." It is okay to assume that [itex] M, N_1, N_2 [/itex] are smooth manifolds, but there is no mention of them being fibre bundles. Does he just mean the preimage of points in [itex] N_1, N_2[/itex]? That is, the fibre of [itex]q \in N_1 [/itex] in M would be [itex] M_q = \pi_1^{-1}(q) [/itex]? This seems reasonable since we assumed that [itex] \pi_1,\pi_2 [/itex] are surjective and hence this is well defined, but I've never heard "fibres" used in this manner before.
If this is the case, what does it mean to be constant on each others fibres? Does this mean that if [itex] q_1 \in N_1[/itex] then [itex] \pi_2(\pi_1^{-1}(q_1)) = c(q_1) [/itex], where [itex] c(q) [/itex] is some constant function that varies only with q?
I'm running through Lee's Introduction to Smooth Manifolds to brush up my differential geometry. I love this book, but I've come to something I'm not sure about. He states a result for which the proof is an exercise:
Proposition: Suppose [itex] \pi_1: M\to N_1, \pi_2: M \to N_2 [/itex] are surjective submersions that are constant on each others fibres. Then there exists a unique diffeomorphism [itex] F: N_1 \to N_2 [/itex] such that [itex] F \circ \pi_1 = \pi_2 [/itex].
I'm not quite clear on what he means by "constant on each others fibres." It is okay to assume that [itex] M, N_1, N_2 [/itex] are smooth manifolds, but there is no mention of them being fibre bundles. Does he just mean the preimage of points in [itex] N_1, N_2[/itex]? That is, the fibre of [itex]q \in N_1 [/itex] in M would be [itex] M_q = \pi_1^{-1}(q) [/itex]? This seems reasonable since we assumed that [itex] \pi_1,\pi_2 [/itex] are surjective and hence this is well defined, but I've never heard "fibres" used in this manner before.
If this is the case, what does it mean to be constant on each others fibres? Does this mean that if [itex] q_1 \in N_1[/itex] then [itex] \pi_2(\pi_1^{-1}(q_1)) = c(q_1) [/itex], where [itex] c(q) [/itex] is some constant function that varies only with q?