Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5777963 Topology and its Applications 2017 29 Pages PDF
Abstract
Given an arbitrary topological complex vector space A, a quotient vector bundle for A is a quotient of a trivial vector bundle π2:A×X→X by a fiberwise linear continuous open surjection. We show that this notion subsumes that of a Banach bundle over a locally compact Hausdorff space X. Hyperspaces consisting of linear subspaces of A, topologized with natural topologies that include the lower Vietoris topology and the Fell topology, provide classifying spaces for various classes of quotient vector bundles, in a way that generalizes the classification of locally trivial vector bundles by Grassmannians. If A is normed, a finer hyperspace topology is introduced that classifies bundles with continuous norm, including Banach bundles, and such that bundles of constant finite rank must be locally trivial.
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