Normal fibrations and the existence of tubular neighborhoods (Q2266483)

Let (M,N) denote a Hilbert cube manifold pair, with N locally flat of codimension n in M. Using a construction of \textit{E. Fadell} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 114, 488-513 (1965; Zbl 0129.395)], there is associated with this situation a normal Hurewicz fibration over N whose fibers have the homotopy type of \(S^{n-1}\). The author shows that N has a closed tubular neighborhood in M if and only if this fibration is fiber homotopically equivalent to an \(S^{n-1}\)-bundle over N.