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Oriented real vector bundles are classified by BSO
Statement
Assume AC. For a paracompact Hausdorff CGWH base and , pullback of gives a natural bijection
where the right side consists of orientation-preserving isomorphism classes of numerable oriented rank- real bundles. For both sets are singletons.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, a paracompact Hausdorff CGWH space , and .
Under AC, numerable real rank- bundles over have countable Grassmannian embeddings and are classified by their stable Gauss maps (Real and complex vector bundles are classified by stable Grassmannians).
With a metric, an orientation is equivalent to an reduction (Orientation is equivalent to an SO(n)-reduction).
The oriented Grassmannian carries the tautological oriented bundle and is the chosen model (Oriented Grassmannians and the tautological oriented bundle).
AC has the meaning fixed in The Axiom of Choice.
Proof
Let be a numerable oriented bundle. Use [F1] to choose a countable embedding . Give the image plane the orientation transported by from . In oriented local frames this varies continuously, so it defines . The tautological pullback map is orientation-preserving by construction. Thus every oriented bundle is in the image.
If two maps to the oriented Grassmannian are homotopic, pull back over and repeat the graph-transport proof used in [F1] with oriented charts. Every transition matrix has positive determinant, so the endpoint isomorphism is orientation-preserving. Hence pullback depends only on the homotopy class.
Conversely, an orientation-preserving isomorphism between two pullbacks identifies them as one oriented bundle. Move their embeddings to odd and even coordinates and interpolate as in the injectivity proof of [F1], transporting the fixed domain orientation to every intermediate image plane. This is a homotopy through oriented Grassmannian maps, so the pullback assignment is injective.
Pullback of the transported image orientation commutes with base change, proving naturality. By [F2], the same classification can be read as classification of the corresponding reductions, which agrees with the notation in [F3]. When , the oriented Grassmannian, structure group, and bundle fiber are points, so both sets are singletons. AC is inherited exactly from [F1]'s numeration and countabilization.
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Sources
- Hatcher, Vector Bundles & K-Theory, §1.2 (standard reference, not scraped)