Composition in alternating-bundle coordinates #
Precomposing a fibrewise alternating map with a fibrewise linear map commutes with passing into bundle coordinates wherever the intermediate trivialization is valid. This identity allows regularity of pullbacks to be checked on fixed model fibres, without choosing norms on the original fibres.
In degree one, the identification ContinuousAlternatingMap.ofSubsingleton of linear maps with
alternating maps of one variable also commutes with passing into coordinates, with no base-set
hypothesis. This compares regularity of degree-one forms with regularity of sections of the
bundle of fibrewise linear maps.
When the codomain is a fixed space, a fibre alternating map read in the trivialization at x₀
is precomposed with the inverse, at its base point, of the trivialization of the domain bundle at
x₀ (FiberBundle.trivializationAt_continuousAlternatingMap_apply_snd). This holds everywhere,
with no base-set hypothesis.
The coordinate maps are Mathlib's ContinuousAlternatingMap.inCoordinates and
ContinuousLinearMap.inCoordinates.
Coordinates of precomposition are precomposition of coordinates. Only the intermediate fibre must belong to its chosen trivialization's base set.
Coordinates of a fibrewise linear map, viewed as an alternating map of one variable, are the coordinates of the linear map, viewed in the same way.
In the trivialization at x₀ of the bundle of alternating maps from V to a fixed space F,
a fibre map ω at x is precomposed with the inverse, at x, of the trivialization of V at
x₀.