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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 , and all morphisms are -morphisms.
Assume the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice) inherited from the proper/quasi-finite and scheme base-change suppliers. For a rank- vector bundle , let . If is exact and is the vector subbundle immersion, then . In particular . These identities and proper/flat/divisor compatibility hold after every base change.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: the Axiom of Choice; a rank- vector bundle ; an exact sequence of vector bundles with subbundle immersion and projection .
Flat pullback along a vector bundle is bijective with inverse , compatibly with every base change (Homotopy invariance for vector bundles).
Chern classes are operational, commute with bivariant operations, satisfy when is pure-dimensional and a section of has regularly embedded zero scheme of codimension , and obey the Whitney formula (Operational Chern classes and the Whitney formula, Bivariant Chow operations and bivariant classes).
Proof
Compatibility. Since is bijective with inverse by [L1], the displayed identities are equivalent after applying to the corresponding identities of bivariant operations: proper, flat and divisor compatibility of follows by applying and the corresponding push-pull or Cartier identities to each equality; all constructions are stable under base change by [L1] and [L2].
The excess formula. Consider the universal section of on , namely the image of the vector coordinate under the composite (equivalently the section of whose value at a point is the class of the tautological vector); its zero scheme is exactly the subbundle . After a local splitting of the section cuts independent fibre coordinates, so its zero scheme is regularly embedded of codimension . For an integral , write and . These are integral and pure-dimensional, of dimensions and , with flat-pullback cycles and . On the restricted universal section again cuts independent fibre coordinates, so [L2] applies there. Pushing its section formula along and using proper compatibility and flat naturality of Chern operators gives . Applying and extending linearly gives for all .
The zero-section case. Taking and gives the zero section of and the identity ; the local splittings used in step 1.2 verify regularity only and do not assert a global splitting of the sequence.