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Conformal Fibrations of $S^3$ by Circles

Differential Geometry 2013-12-04 v1

Abstract

It is shown that analytic conformal submersions of S3S^3 are given by intersections of (not necessary closed) complex surfaces with a quadratic real hyper-surface in CP3.\mathbb{C}P^3. A new description of the space of circles in the 3-sphere in terms of a natural bilinear form on the tangent sphere bundle of S3S^3 is given. As an application it is shown that every conformal fibration of S3S^3 by circles is the Hopf fibration up to conformal transformations.

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@article{arxiv.1312.0849,
  title  = {Conformal Fibrations of $S^3$ by Circles},
  author = {Sebastian Heller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.0849},
  year   = {2013}
}