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The collection of tangent spaces can be glued together to give a manifold with a natural projection, thus giving rise to the tangent bundle. The general glueing procedure can be used to construct more general objects known as vector bundles, which give powerful invariants of a given manifold. (For an interesting theorem see Mazur [Maz 61].) In this chapter, we develop purely formally certain functorial constructions having to do with vector bundles. In the chapters on differential forms and Riemannian metrics, we shall discuss in greater details the constructions associated with multilinear alternating forms, and symmetric positive definite forms.
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Lang, S. (1999). Vector Bundles. In: Fundamentals of Differential Geometry. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 191. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0541-8_3
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