The smooth Euclidean normal bundle #
The normal spaces of a C^(n+1) immersion into a finite-dimensional real inner product space
form a C^n vector bundle. Its total space keeps the subspace topology inherited from M × V.
A C¹ immersion already gives a continuous vector bundle.
In particular, bundle constructions and the Euclidean tubular map use the same topology.
The local normal trivializations use different reference fibres. Here each reference fibre is
identified with one fixed normed space F of the codimension. These identifications are constant
within each trivialization; no regularity of their dependence on the reference point is needed.
The resulting transition operators are the already established normal-coordinate changes,
conjugated by those fixed identifications.
For a C¹ immersion, install normalFiberBundle hf himm hdim and
normalVectorBundle hf himm hdim with letI. A C^(n+1) immersion supplies the C¹
hypotheses via IsManifold.of_le and hf.of_le le_add_self; its smooth structure is
normalContMDiffVectorBundle hf himm hdim. The model fibre can, for example, be
EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin (Module.finrank ℝ V - Module.finrank ℝ E)).
Neither compactness nor injectivity of the immersion is required.
References #
- J. M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, 2nd ed., Graduate Texts in Mathematics 218, Springer (2013), the normal-bundle construction preceding Theorem 6.24.
A fixed linear identification of a normal fibre with a model of the codimension.
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A local normal trivialization with a single fixed model fibre. Its base set is the invertibility locus of the normal compression at the reference point.
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The base set is unchanged by choosing a fixed model fibre.
Fixed-model normal coordinates are the original coordinates followed by the reference fibre identification.
Inverse fixed-model coordinates project the reference normal vector to the moving fibre.
Fixed-model normal trivializations are fibrewise linear.
On overlaps, transition operators are the normal-coordinate changes conjugated by the two fixed reference-fibre identifications.
The fixed-model normal transition operators vary C^n on overlaps.
The normal fibres form a fibre bundle with the topology inherited from M × V.
Use this definition as a local instance to choose its projected normal-coordinate atlas.
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The preferred normal-bundle trivialization is the fixed-model projected trivialization at the same point.
The normal-bundle atlas consists exactly of the projected normal trivializations.
The normal fibre bundle is a real vector bundle: its atlas is linear and its transition operators are continuous in operator norm.
The normal bundle of a C^(n+1) immersion is a C^n vector bundle, with the existing
subspace topology on its total space.