Session 30. Real Algebraic Geometry, applications and related topics

Stratified-algebraic vector bundles

Wojciech Kucharz, Jagiellonian University, Poland
The talk is based on the joint work with Krzysztof Kurdyka
We investigate stratified-algebraic vector bundles on a real algebraic variety \(X\). A stratification of \(X\) is a finite partition of \(X\) into Zariski locally closed subvarieties. A topological vector bundle on \(X\) is called a stratified-algebraic vector bundle if, roughly speaking, its restriction to each stratum of some stratification of \(X\) is an algebraic vector bundle on that stratum. It turns out that stratified-algebraic vector bundles have many desirable features of algebraic vector bundles but are more flexible. Recently first significant steps have been made toward real algebraic geometry based on continuous rational functions - called regulous geometry. Stratified-algebraic vector bundles can be also regarded as the appropriate class of vector bundles in regulous geometry.
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