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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 115 1 d Solution by
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Real line bundles over a paracompact space are classified byEuclidean space is a contractible space, so its first cohomology vanishes and every real line bundle on it is trivial. Apply this to the defining bundle from part (c). In a global trivialization, is a smooth real function with and . Thus , or a metric-dual normal vector field, gives a global orientation of the normal line. Combining this with the standard orientation of gives an orientation of using the same normal-first convention as the outward-normal-first boundary orientation. Hence every properly embedded hypersurface in is orientable.
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