Open quotients of trivial vector bundles
Abstract
Given an arbitrary topological complex vector space , a quotient vector bundle for is a quotient of a trivial vector bundle by a fiberwise linear continuous open surjection. We show that this notion subsumes that of a Banach bundle over a locally compact Hausdorff space . Hyperspaces consisting of linear subspaces of , topologized with natural topologies that include the lower Vietoris topology and the Fell topology, provide classifying spaces for various classes of quotient vector bundles, in a way that generalizes the classification of locally trivial vector bundles by Grassmannians. If is normed, a finer hyperspace topology is introduced that classifies bundles with continuous norm, including Banach bundles, and such that bundles of constant finite rank must be locally trivial.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.06329,
title = {Open quotients of trivial vector bundles},
author = {Pedro Resende and João Paulo Santos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06329},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Version 2 fixed a problem with the definition of the closed balls topology (section 5). Version 3 mainly fixed typos and improved presentation