Pulling back orientations #
Let f : M → M' be a C¹ map between manifolds with corners whose manifold derivative is
invertible at every point. An orientation o' of M' pulls back to an orientation of M: the
tangent orientation at x is the one carried to o''s tangent orientation at f x by the
derivative of f at x. It is the unique orientation of M for which f preserves orientation
at every point [Lee, Prop. 15.15].
Local diffeomorphisms of class C^n, n ≠ 0, are the main examples, through
IsLocalDiffeomorph.isInvertible_mfderiv. The weaker hypothesis also covers maps that are not
local diffeomorphisms at boundary points, such as the inclusion of a closed ball into its ambient
space, whose image is not open.
The local constancy of the pulled-back tangent orientations holds for any family of orientations
of the tangent spaces of M' along f that is locally constant in trivializations
(TauCeti.Manifold.Orientation.eventually_mapOrientation_map_symm_eq), not only for those of an
orientation of M'; this is the form needed for orientations defined fibrewise, such as the
canonical orientation of an orientation double cover.
Conversely, orientations descend along local diffeomorphisms: a family of orientations of the
tangent spaces of M' which is carried, near a, from an orientation of M by the derivative of a
local diffeomorphism f at a is locally constant near f a
(IsLocalDiffeomorphAt.eventually_mapOrientation_eq). This is the form needed for orientations of
spaces glued from oriented pieces, such as the connected sum.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.Manifold.Orientation.pullback: the pullback of an orientation along aC¹map with everywhere invertible derivative.
Main results #
TauCeti.Manifold.Orientation.isOrientationPreservingAt_pullback:fpreserves orientation from the pullback orientation.TauCeti.Manifold.Orientation.eq_pullback_iff: the pullback is the only orientation from whichfpreserves orientation everywhere.TauCeti.Manifold.Orientation.eq_neg_pullback_iff: its opposite is the only orientation from whichfreverses orientation everywhere.TauCeti.Manifold.Orientation.pullback_id,TauCeti.Manifold.Orientation.pullback_comp: functoriality.IsLocalDiffeomorphAt.eventually_mapOrientation_eq: tangent orientations carried from an orientation by a local diffeomorphism are locally constant.TauCeti.Manifold.Orientation.eventually_isOrientationPreservingAt,TauCeti.Manifold.Orientation.eventually_isOrientationReversingAt: aC¹map that preserves (reverses) orientation at a point does so at every nearby point.
References #
- John M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, second edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 218, Springer, 2013, Proposition 15.15.
Let f be a map that is C¹ at a and whose derivative at each x near a is the
equivalence D x, and let ω x be an orientation of the tangent space of M' at f x, locally
constant near a when read in the preferred trivialization at f a. Then the orientations of the
tangent spaces of M obtained by transporting ω x back along D x are locally constant near a
when read in the preferred trivialization at a.
The pullback of an orientation o' of M' along a C¹ map f : M → M' whose manifold
derivative is invertible at every point: the tangent orientation at x is carried to that of o'
at f x by the derivative of f (map_orientationAt_pullback). It is the unique orientation
from which f preserves orientation everywhere (eq_pullback_iff). For a C^n local
diffeomorphism, n ≠ 0, invertibility of the derivative is
IsLocalDiffeomorph.isInvertible_mfderiv.
The hypothesis hι says that ι indexes orientations of the model of M; it follows from the
invertibility of the derivative unless M is empty.
Instances For
The derivative of f carries the tangent orientations of the pullback orientation to those of
the original orientation.
A map preserves orientation at every point from the pullback orientation.
The pullback orientation is the only orientation from which f preserves orientation at
every point.
The opposite of the pullback orientation is the only orientation from which f reverses
orientation at every point.
Pulling back the opposite orientation gives the opposite of the pullback orientation.
Pulling back along the identity does nothing.
Pulling back along a composite is pulling back successively.
Orientations descend along local diffeomorphisms. Let f : M → M' be a C^n local
diffeomorphism at a, n ≠ 0, and let ω y be an orientation of the tangent space of M' at
each y. If near a the derivative of f carries the tangent orientations of an orientation o
of M to ω, then ω is locally constant near f a when read in the preferred trivialization
at f a.
Orientation preservation is an open condition. If a map f that is C¹ at a preserves
the orientations o and o' at a, then it preserves them at every point near a.
Orientation reversal is an open condition. If a map f that is C¹ at a reverses the
orientations o and o' at a, then it reverses them at every point near a.