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It is useful to say that two line bundles
are isomorphic if there is a diffeomorphism map
such that
for every
and
such that the induced map
is a linear isomorphism.
We define a line bundle
to be trivial if it is
isomorphic to
the trivial bundle. Any such
isomorphism we call a trivialisation of
.
Michael Murray
1998-09-16