If is a fiber
bundle with
a paracompact topological
space, then
satisfies the homotopy lifting
property with respect to all topological spaces.
In other words, if
is a homotopy from
to
,
and if
is a lift
of the map
with respect to
, then
has a lift to a map
with respect to
. Therefore, if you have a homotopy
of a map into
, and if the beginning of it has a lift,
then that lift can be extended to a lift
of the homotopy itself.
A fibration is a map between topological spaces
such that it satisfies the homotopy lifting
property.