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Let be a smooth fiber bundle so that all spaces and are manifolds.
Exercise 0.1. Show that , the tangent bundle of , splits as the sum of two bundles
where consists of those tangent vectors tangent to the fibres of .
Question 0.2. Is the bundle the pullback of some bundle over ?
Exercise 0.3. Suppose that is itself a smooth vector bundle. Determine in terms of and regarded as a vector bundle.
Exercise 0.4. Suppose that is the sphere bundle of a vector bundle. Determine the stable tangent bundle of in terms of and .
Exercise 0.5. Compute the total Pontragin class of , quaternionicprojective space. (This was first achieved in [Hirzebruch1953]).