Hopf Fibrations and Hurwitz-Radon Numbers
Hopf Fibrations and Hurwitz-Radon Numbers
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Hopf 纤维和 Hurwitz-Radon 数
DOI:
10.1007/s00283-015-9618-x
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发表时间:
2016
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通讯作者:
S. Tabachnikov
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作者:
V. Ovsienko;S. Tabachnikov
Submissions should be uploaded to http://tmin.edmgr.com or sent directly to Sergei Tabachnikov, tabachni@math.psu.edu H opf fibration is a beautiful topological construction representing a 3-dimensional sphere as a disjoint union of pairwise linked great circles. Judging by its presence on YouTube, it is almost an object of mass culture; see [23] for a sampler. For visualization, we also strongly recommend the film ‘‘Dimensions’’ [3]. Hopf fibration was defined and studied by the famous German geometer and topologist Heintz Hopf in 1931 [16]. In a sense, contemporary algebraic topology has grown up with the Hopf fibration: the development of the theory of characteristic classes, homotopy theory, and K-theory was much influenced by the study of Hopf fibration; see [4, 5, 8, 13, 14]. Hopf fibration appears in other areas of mathematics and physics, including fluid dynamics, gauge theories, cosmology, and elementary particles [22]. In fact, there exist four fiber bundles, called the Hopf fibrations, whose fibers, total spaces, and bases are spheres: