Smooth quotient maps to intrinsic normal bundles #
For an embedding in an arbitrary finite-dimensional manifold, taking the normal class of an ambient tangent vector is smooth, with one derivative lost from the embedding. The projection also admits smooth local right inverses. Consequently a map out of the normal bundle is smooth exactly when its expression on ambient tangent representatives is smooth.
These results connect the quotient definition of the normal bundle with smooth constructions on ambient tangent vectors, as used in tubular neighbourhoods. No Riemannian metric, compactness, or boundarylessness is needed.
References #
- J. M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, second edition, the normal-bundle construction preceding Theorem 6.24.
Taking the intrinsic normal class of an ambient tangent vector is C^m for a C^n
embedding when m + 1 โค n. Both bundles carry their usual bundle charts.
Near each intrinsic normal vector there is a C^m choice of ambient tangent
representatives. The right-inverse identity holds on a neighbourhood of that normal vector.
A map out of an intrinsic normal bundle is C^m exactly when it is C^m on
ambient tangent representatives. This is the smooth descent property of the normal quotient.