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Hello all, trying to prove that the tangent bundle TM of a smooth n-manifold M is always orientable. To make it easier to write down Im doing n=2.
Let the differentiable structure on M be given by. This then induces a differentiable structure on TM given by
where we define
i.e. we take as the coordinates of a point (p,w) in TM the coordinates of the point p in U, plus the coordinates of w in the basis
Once you've proved that TM is a smooth 4-manifold (which isn't hard) you then have to show that for every change of coordinate function the determinant of its jacobian matrix is positive, i.e.
for all
.
To write out the 4x4 matrixis where I've come unstuck. The first two columns will be the partial derivatives of the 4 component functions of
with respect to
, i.e. the top-left 2x2 block will just be
and the bottom-left will be zero because
.
I don't know how to work out the two 2x2 blocks on the right hand side of the matrix. Basically I don't know what to take the partial derivative with respect to, and just how to write it down. Hopefully the top-right will be zero and the bottom-right will be
Any help anyone could give me would be great!
Cheers,
Atticus
