Unipotent factorization of vector bundle automorphisms

Abstract

We provide unipotent factorizations of vector bundle automorphisms of real and complex vector bundles over finite dimensional locally finite CW-complexes. This generalizes work of Thurston–Vaserstein and Vaserstein for trivial vector bundles. We also address two symplectic cases and propose a complex geometric analog of the problem in the setting of holomorphic vector bundles over Stein manifolds.