On sectioning multiples of vector bundles and more general homomorphism bundles

Július Korbaš1
1Mathematical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Tóm tắt

We derive in a simple way some higher estimates of the number of every-where linearly independent cross-sections for even multiples of real vector bundles, and, more generally, for a certain class of homomorphism bundles, supposing that there exists at least one nowhere vanishing cross-section.

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