Cofibration

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This article defines a property over pairs of a topological space and a subspace, or equivalently, properties over subspace embeddings (viz, subsets) in topological spaces

Definition

A subspace A of a topological space X is said to have the homotopy extension property if the following holds: given any map f0:XY and a homotopy F:A×IY such that F(a,0)=f(a)aA, we have a homotopy F~:XY whose restriction to A is F, and such that F~(x,0)=f(x)xX.