Questions tagged [hopf-fibration]
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How to see the quaternionic hopf map generates the stable 3-stem?
I am looking for a direct proof that the quaternionic hopf map generates (after suspension) the 3rd stable homotopy group of spheres. There are some related MO questions, for example:
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Are there nonlinear projective spaces?
This is actually a series of questions posed by Guram Berishvili about the structure he calls marao. Everything I am going to write here I took (and messed up) from his home page which is all in ...
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Generalising the Penrose Twistor Fibration
As is well known, there exists a fibration $\mathbb{CP}^3 \to S^4$, of the four sphere by complex projective $3$-space, called the Penrose twistor fibration. Does this fibration admit a "canonical" ...
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Hopf fibration inside the retraction of R^4 minus line -> S^2?
This was inspired by this question.
Let $Y = {\mathbb R}^4 \setminus$a coordinate line, which retracts to ${\mathbb R}^3 \setminus$a point, which retracts to $S^2$.
What is an explicit immersion $S^...
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Is this generalization of the Hopf map for quadratic field extensions surjective?
Let $k$ be a field, and let $L$ be a quadratic extension of $k$. Denote by $\sigma$ the non-trivial element of $\operatorname{Gal}(L/k)$. Let $M_2(L)$ be the vector space over $L$ of two-by-two ...
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Explanation for "Squashing" and "Stretching" (Lorentzian Analogue of Berger Spheres)
In the paper Anti-de Sitter space, squashed and stretched Bengtsson and Sandin introduce the Lorentzian analogue of the squashed 3-sphere. After looking up Berger spheres, it seems what is meant with "...