Solution

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Take the Möbius line bundle over ,
A continuous section of a vector bundle corresponds to a continuous real-valued function with . If , it already vanishes. Otherwise its endpoint values have opposite signs, so the intermediate value theorem gives for some . Thus this vector bundle has no nowhere-zero section. Every continuous section must vanish.

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