Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 114 4 b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Fibrewise evaluation identifiesThe identity endomorphism is a nowhere-zero continuous section, giving the canonical trivialization of a line bundle tensored with its dual.
Give a complex line bundle its natural orientation as a real plane bundle. Then its Euler class equals its First Chern class. If are the standard generators of , choose complex line bundles pulled back from the Hopf fibration on the two factors, with and . The triviality of gives . Hence, for anythe tensor product , with negative powers interpreted using dual bundles, has Euler class . Its underlying oriented real rank-two bundle is the required .