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The Blaschke conjecture and great circle fibrations of spheres

Differential Geometry 2016-10-14 v4

Abstract

We construct an explicit diffeomorphism taking any fibration of a sphere by great circles into the Hopf fibration, using elementary geometry--indeed the diffeomorphism is a local (differential) invariant, algebraic in derivatives.

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@article{arxiv.math/0112027,
  title  = {The Blaschke conjecture and great circle fibrations of spheres},
  author = {Benjamin McKay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0112027},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

61 pages, 8 figures, corrected errors in the published version