Statement (iv) follows from (ii). Assertion (iii) is a general fact about transitive group actions.
To prove that the group action is transitive, let
and
be two points in the fiber
and
be a path in
joining
and
. The image path
is then a loop
in
based at
and so represents an element of
.
Also
being the lift of
starting at
,
we see that
Turning now to the proof of (ii), let
and
be an arbitrary loop in
based at
.
Then
belongs to the stabilizer of
if and only if its lift starting at
terminates at the same point
. That is
if and only if
lifts as a loop based at
. But this
is equivalent to saying
and
.
Conversely if
is
the image under
of
then
is a loop homotopic to a lift of
starting at
.
But any two such lifts have the same terminal point which means
That is to say
belongs to the stabilizer of
and that completes the proof.
nisha
2012-03-20