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Affine Hopf fibration

Algebraic Topology 2015-12-02 v2

Abstract

An affine Hopf fibration is a fibration of n-dimensional real affine space by p-dimensional pairwise skew affine subspaces. An example is a fibration of 3-space by pairwise skew lines, the result of the central projection of the classical Hopf fibration of 3-sphere. In this expository article, we describe the solution of the following problem: for which values of n and p does an affine Hopf fibration exist? The answer is given in terms of the Hurwitz-Radon function.

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@article{arxiv.1511.08894,
  title  = {Affine Hopf fibration},
  author = {V. Ovsienko and S. Tabachnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08894},
  year   = {2015}
}
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