Skip to main content
4 of 6
added 3 characters in body; edited title
M. Winter
  • 13.6k
  • 3
  • 29
  • 70

Transitive embedding of the projective space $\Bbb R P^2$ into the $4$-sphere

Is there an embedding (i.e. injective continuous map)

$$\phi:\Bbb R P^2\hookrightarrow S^4\subseteq\Bbb R^5$$

of the 2-dimensional projective space $\Bbb R P^2$ into the $4$-sphere, that is transitive, i.e. for any two $x,y\in P^2\Bbb R$ there is an orthogonal transformation $T\in\mathrm{O}(\Bbb R^5)$ that fixed the image $\mathrm{im}(\phi)$ set-wise, and has $Tx=y$?

Is $\Bbb R^5$ the lowest dimensional space in which such an embedding is possible, or do we need even more dimensions?

I may ask the same question for $\Bbb R P^n$: what is the lowest dimensional Euclidean space needed for such an embedding.

M. Winter
  • 13.6k
  • 3
  • 29
  • 70