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A '''vector bundle''' is a geometric structure that attaches a vector space to each point of a topological space in a continuous way, generalizing the tangent bundle of a manifold. Formally, it consists of a total space E, a base space M, a projection π: E → M, and a vector space structure on each fiber π⁻¹(p), such that locally the bundle looks like a product U × V.

Vector bundles are the objects on which [[characteristic class]]es like the [[Chern class]] and [[Pontryagin class]] are defined. They are the natural setting for the [[Atiyah-Singer index theorem]] and for the formulation of gauge fields in physics. Every force in the Standard Model is described by a connection on a [[principal bundle]], whose associated vector bundles carry the matter fields.

The classification of vector bundles over a space is one of the central problems of [[K-theory]] and [[algebraic topology]]. A vector bundle is trivial — globally a product — if and only if all of its characteristic classes vanish, but the converse is not always true: there exist nontrivial bundles with vanishing Chern classes.

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