Necessary and sufficient conditions for s-Hopfian manifolds to be codimension-2 fibrators (Q2718982)

Coram and Duvall introduced approximate fibrations in order to improve results on Hurewicz fibrations. The notion of a fibrator helps to detect approximate fibrations. Recall that a closed connected \(n\)-manifold \(N\) is a codimension-2 fibrator if each map \(p:M\to B\) defined on an \((n+2)\)-manifold \(M\) such that all fibres \(p^{-1}(b)\) for \(b\in B\) are shape equivalent to \(N\) is an approximate fibration. The most natural candidates for fibrators are among s-Hopfian manifolds. In this paper the authors give some necessary and sufficient conditions for s-Hopfian manifolds to be codimension-2 fibrators.