Some strange examples of shape fibrations (Q1338203)

The notion of shape fibration between metric compacta has been extended to arbitrary spaces. While the shape fibrations between metric compacta have many shape theoretic properties which are analogous to well known homotopy properties of fibrations this paper says that it does not happen generally. The main result is a general construction of a shape fibration \(f : E \to B\), \(B\) compact, \(E\) noncompact with the following property: For given metric compacta \(X\), \(Y\), \(Z\), this construction gives a shape fibration \(f : E \to B\), with compact fibers and a path \(\sigma : I \to B\) such that the fibers over each point of \(B\) but the end points of \(\sigma\) have the shape of Hilbert cube while at the end points hold: \(\text{sh}f^{-1} (\sigma (0)) = \text{sh} X\) and \(\text{sh}f^{-1} (\sigma (1)) = \text{sh} Y\). Furthermore, \(f\) induces a shape isomorphism where \(\text{sh} B = \text{sh}Z\) and fibers are \(P\)- embedded. As applications of this construction it is listed a series of properties of fibers known to be true for shape fibrations between metric compacta which are not true in general case. Furthermore, \(f\) need not be onto and without the assumption that \(f\) is closed the sequence of pro- homotopy groups of \(f\) need not be exact.