Smooth transitions of intrinsic normal coordinates #
Fixed complementary coordinates for the normal spaces of an embedding have smooth transition
operators on their overlaps. When the product of the source and complementary model spaces is
complete, the transitions of a C^n embedding are C^m when m + 1 โค n, including smooth
and analytic orders. The source and ambient manifolds may have corners.
The transition takes a complementary representative in the old ambient tangent chart, changes ambient tangent coordinates, and projects onto the new complement. We identify the transitions of the actual local normal-bundle trivializations with this operator formula. Thus smooth normal bundle constructions can use the quotient topology and the existing complementary charts without assuming regularity of their transitions.
Reference: J. M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, second edition, the normal-bundle construction preceding Theorem 6.24.
The transition of the actual quotient-topology normal trivializations is the complementary normal transition operator. The complementary model need only be a topological module; no global normal-bundle atlas is required.
The complementary normal trivializations have C^m transition operators on their
base-set overlaps for a C^n embedding with m + 1 โค n, provided the product of the source
and complementary model spaces is complete. This supplies the transition regularity needed
to assemble the intrinsic normal spaces as a smooth vector bundle.