Stability of vector bundles (Ex)
From Manifold Atlas
Let
and
be rank
vector bundles over an
-dimensional CW-complex
with
.
1) Prove that
is isomorphic to
if and only if
is stably isomorphic to
; i.e. there is an isomorphism
for some
, where
denotes the trivial rank
bundle over
.
2) If
, prove that bundle isomorphisms
are fibrewise homotopic if and only if
and
are stably homotopic; i.e. there is a fibrewise homotopy between
and
for some
.