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Zero-section Gysin and excess intersection for vector subbundles

Statement

All schemes and base changes below are locally of finite type over a fixed field k, and all morphisms are k-morphisms.

Assume the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice) inherited from the proper/quasi-finite and scheme base-change suppliers. For a rank-r vector bundle p:N→T, let sN!=(p∗)−1. If 0→N′→N→Q→0 is exact and a:N′↪N is the vector subbundle immersion, then sN!a∗p′∗α=crank⁡Q(Q)∩α. In particular sN!s∗α=cr(N)∩α. These identities and proper/flat/divisor compatibility hold after every base change.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the Axiom of Choice; a rank-r vector bundle p:N→T; an exact sequence 0→N′→N→Q→0 of vector bundles with subbundle immersion a:N′↪N and projection p′:N′→T.

[L1]

Flat pullback along a vector bundle is bijective with inverse sN!, compatibly with every base change (Homotopy invariance for vector bundles).

[L2]

Chern classes are operational, commute with bivariant operations, satisfy cr(N)∩[T]=[Z(s)] when T is pure-dimensional and a section of N has regularly embedded zero scheme of codimension r, and obey the Whitney formula (Operational Chern classes and the Whitney formula, Bivariant Chow operations and bivariant classes).

Proof

technique · direct; pull the identity back along the bijection $p^*$, where it becomes the regular-section formula for the universal quotient section
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Compatibility. Since p∗ is bijective with inverse sN! by [L1], the displayed identities are equivalent after applying p∗ to the corresponding identities of bivariant operations: proper, flat and divisor compatibility of sN! follows by applying p∗ and the corresponding push-pull or Cartier identities to each equality; all constructions are stable under base change by [L1] and [L2].

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The excess formula. Consider the universal section of p∗Q on N, namely the image of the vector coordinate under the composite N→Q (equivalently the section of p∗Q whose value at a point is the class of the tautological vector); its zero scheme is exactly the subbundle N′. After a local splitting of 0→N′→N→Q→0 the section cuts rank⁡Q independent fibre coordinates, so its zero scheme is regularly embedded of codimension rank⁡Q. For an integral V⊆T, write NV=p−1(V) and NV′=p′−1(V). These are integral and pure-dimensional, of dimensions dim⁡V+r and dim⁡V+rank⁡N′, with flat-pullback cycles [NV]=p∗[V] and [NV′]=p′∗[V]. On NV the restricted universal section again cuts independent fibre coordinates, so [L2] applies there. Pushing its section formula along NV↪N and using proper compatibility and flat naturality of Chern operators gives a∗p′∗[V]=crank⁡Q(p∗Q)∩p∗[V]=p∗(crank⁡Q(Q)∩[V]). Applying sN! and extending linearly gives sN!a∗p′∗α=crank⁡Q(Q)∩α for all α.

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The zero-section case. Taking N′=0 and Q=N gives the zero section s:T→N of N and the identity sN!s∗α=cr(N)∩α; the local splittings used in step 1.2 verify regularity only and do not assert a global splitting of the sequence.

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