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Vector-bundle pullback is canonically functorial
Statement
For and composable maps , there are canonical bundle isomorphisms
They are natural in bundle maps and coherent for three composable base maps. Under them, pullback of sections respects identities and composition.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The bundle and composable maps in the statement.
Pullbacks are the indicated subspaces of products, and their canonical maps and sections have the displayed coordinate formulas (Pullback vector bundles and sections).
Proof
The maps and are mutually inverse fiberwise-linear continuous maps . They are continuous by the product and subspace formulas in [F1].
The composite comparison is , with inverse . Both maps are continuous restrictions of product-coordinate maps, are linear on each fiber, and preserve the defining equations, so [F1] makes them inverse bundle isomorphisms.
For a third base map, every route through the associativity comparisons deletes the same redundant base coordinates and ends at the same pair . For a bundle map, both naturality routes apply that map to the same final -coordinate. Thus the comparisons are coherent and natural.
The pullback section formula sends to whether it is applied once along or twice along and ; the identity formula similarly reduces to . Hence sections respect identities and composition under the canonical comparisons.
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Sources
- Hatcher, Vector Bundles & K-Theory, §1.1 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Milnor and Stasheff, Characteristic Classes, §3 (standard reference, not scraped)