The topology of the intrinsic normal bundle #
Give the total space of intrinsic normal classes the quotient topology from the ambient tangent bundle pulled back along the embedding. This construction uses no metric or complement, and applies to embeddings in arbitrary ambient manifolds. Its projection and zero section are continuous.
A commuting square with differentiable base map and Cยน ambient map induces a continuous map of these total spaces: the ambient tangent map descends through the quotient. This is the topological compatibility needed to express normal-bundle coordinates in different ambient manifold charts.
Reference: J. M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, second edition, the normal-bundle
construction preceding Theorem 6.24. The fibre maps are the existing SmoothEmbedding.normalMap.
Take normal classes in the pulled-back ambient tangent bundle. The model parameter
K of the target total space does not affect the quotient construction.
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The quotient map preserves the base and takes the fibrewise normal class.
Every point of the intrinsic normal total space has an ambient tangent representative.
The intrinsic normal total space has the quotient topology from the pulled-back ambient tangent bundle.
Ambient tangent representatives give a quotient map onto the intrinsic normal bundle.
A map out of the normal bundle is continuous exactly when its expression on ambient tangent representatives is continuous.
The intrinsic normal-bundle projection is continuous.
The zero section of the intrinsic normal bundle is continuous.
On an ambient tangent representative, the induced normal-bundle map takes the normal class of the ambient differential of the representative.
A commuting square with differentiable base map and Cยน ambient map induces a continuous map of intrinsic normal bundles.