 Canonical trivialization of a line bundle tensored with its dual (source code)

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= Canonical trivialization of a line bundle tensored with its dual

For a real or complex <line bundle> $L$, the evaluation isomorphism $L^*\otimes L\cong\operatorname{End}(L)$ identifies the identity endomorphisms with a nowhere-zero global section. Consequently $L^*\otimes L$ is trivial.

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