Timeline for How do you relate the number of independent vector fields on spheres and Bott Periodicity for real K-Theory?
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| Apr 11, 2016 at 13:04 | history | edited | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
double backslashes created extremely confusing display
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| Mar 15, 2010 at 0:57 | comment | added | Sam Derbyshire | This is more or less what I had in mind about the lower bound: you get the vector fields on spheres from Clifford algebras, and the Clifford algebras of interest do satisfy a form of Bott Periodicity. It is this relation that motivated my curiosity about how this form of Bott periodicity (for Clifford algebras) and the form for K-Theory tie in; and especially how this becomes apparent in the situation of vector fields on spheres. | |
| Mar 15, 2010 at 0:45 | history | edited | Charles Rezk | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
typo fix
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| Mar 15, 2010 at 0:27 | history | answered | Charles Rezk | CC BY-SA 2.5 |