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- From: allenk@ugcs.caltech.edu (Allen Knutson)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Long line headaches (was Re: more math puzzles)
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 21:00:39 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- baez@ucrmath.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
-
- >3) Prove that the tangent bundle of the long line is nontrivial.
- >For extra credit, an obvious spinoff of 3) that I don't know the answer to:
- >4) Classify line bundles over the long line.
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- John doesn't mention one particularly amusing thing about this question 4.
-
- Over any space, the isomorphism classes line bundles form a group under tensor
- product. A Euclidean line bundle comes with an obvious isomorphism to its
- dual (which is its inverse). Over a paracompact space, any line bundle can
- be made Euclidean. So this group is exponent 2, over a paracompact space.
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- But presumably it's a more interesting group in this case, the long line
- not being paracompact. (If I remember right...) Allen K.
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