Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 115 1 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
A vector bundle morphism over is a smooth map with whose restriction is linear for every . A vector bundle isomorphism is such a map with a smooth bundle-morphism inverse. Equivalently, a fiberwise bijective smooth bundle morphism is an isomorphism: in local vector bundle trivializations it is multiplication by an invertible smooth matrix, and its inverse matrix is smooth.
For a diffeomorphism , defineThe derivative is a linear isomorphism by the chain rule, since . In manifold charts, is represented by the smooth Jacobian matrix of , so it is a smooth bundle morphism. Its inverse iswhich is also smooth and fiberwise linear. ConsequentlyThis identifies the bundles over the same base ; the tangent map by itself is a map from to covering .
Vector bundle isomorphism 2026-10-05
A vector bundle morphism is an isomorphism if it admits an inverse of the same kind. A smooth fiberwise bijective bundle morphism automatically has a smooth inverse, because inverse matrices in vector bundle trivializations depend smoothly on their entries wherever their determinants are nonzero.