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The Hopf fibration is an important object in mathematics and physics. A landmark discovery in topology and a fundamental object in the theory of Lie groups, the Hopf fibration has a wide variety of physical applications including magnetic…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-12-06 David W. Lyons

We present a unifying framework for understanding several different versions of the Hopf fibration, and use this framework to reconcile two methods of representing rotations of 3-space by unitary matrices--the mathematician's convention…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-11 David W. Lyons

The $\theta$-deformed Hopf fibration $\mathbb{S}^3_\theta\to \mathbb{S}^2$ over the commutative $2$-sphere is compared with its classical counterpart. It is shown that there exists a natural isomorphism between the corresponding associated…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Tomasz Brzeziński , James Gaunt , Alexander Schenkel

We study the topological configurations of the two-component condensates of bosons with the $3$D $\vec{\sigma}\cdot \vec{p}$ Weyl-type spin-orbit coupling subject to a harmonic trapping potential. The topology of the condensate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-30 Yi Li , Xiangfa Zhou , Congjun Wu

We study a quantum version of the SU(2) Hopf fibration $S^7 \to S^4$ and its associated twistor geometry. Our quantum sphere $S^7_q$ arises as the unit sphere inside a q-deformed quaternion space $\mathbb{H}^2_q$. The resulting four-sphere…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Simon Brain , Giovanni Landi

In a 1983 paper with Frank Warner, we proved that the space of all great circle fibrations of the 3-sphere S^3 deformation retracts to the subspace of Hopf fibrations, and so has the homotopy type of a pair of disjoint two-spheres. Since…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Patricia Cahn , Herman Gluck , Haggai Nuchi

We implement the geometric method proposed in ([9], [3], [16]) to analytically predict the sequence of bifurcations leading to a change of stability and/or the appearance of new periodic orbits in the secular 3D planetary three body…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Rita Mastroianni , Antonella Marchesiello , Christos Efthymiopoulos , Giuseppe Pucacco

It is shown that analytic conformal submersions of $S^3$ are given by intersections of (not necessary closed) complex surfaces with a quadratic real hyper-surface in $\mathbb{C}P^3.$ A new description of the space of circles in the 3-sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-04 Sebastian Heller

We show that the moduli space of all smooth fibrations of a three-sphere by simple closed curves has the homotopy type of a disjoint union of a pair of two-spheres if the fibers are oriented, and of a pair of real projective planes if…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Dennis Deturck , Ziqi Fang , Herman Gluck , Leandro Lichtenfelz , Mona Merling , Yi Wang , Jingye Yang

3D topological solitons are marvels of mathematical physics that arise in theoretical models in elementary particle and nuclear physics, condensed matter, and cosmology. A particularly interesting type of them is described by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-06 Jung-Shen B. Tai , Jin-Sheng Wu , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Knots and links play a crucial role in understanding topology and discreteness in nature. In magnetic systems, twisted, knotted and braided vortex tubes manifest as Skyrmions, Hopfions, or screw dislocations. These complex textures are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Maria Azhar , Sandra C. Shaju , Ross Knapman , Alessandro Pignedoli , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Rotation representations are foundational in fields such as computer graphics, robotics, and machine learning, where precise and efficient modeling of 3D orientations is critical. This paper comprehensively investigates diverse…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Aizierjiang Aiersilan , Haochen Liu , James Hahn

Quaternions were appeared through Lagrangian formulation of mechanics in Symplectic vector space. Its general form was obtained from the Clifford algebra, and Frobenius' theorem, which says that "the only finite-dimensional real division…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Sadataka Furui

The existence of Hopf fibrations S^{2N+1}/S^1 = CP^N and S^{4K+3}/S^3 = HP^K allows us to treat the Hilbert space of generic finite-dimensional quantum systems as the total bundle space with respectively $U(1)$ and $SU(2)$ fibers and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-20 Chopin Soo , Huei-Chen Lin

We give a description up to homeomorphism of $S^3$ and $S^2$ as classifying spaces of small categories, such that the Hopf map $S^3\to{}S^2$ is the realization of a functor.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Björn Gohla

Heinz Hopf's famous fibrations of the 2n+1-sphere by great circles, the 4n+3-sphere by great 3-spheres, and the 15-sphere by great 7-spheres have a number of interesting properties. Besides providing the first examples of homotopically…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Haggai Nuchi

In the work some relations between three techniques, Hopf's bundle, Kustaanheimo-Stiefel's bundle, 3-space with spinor structure have been examined. The spinor space is viewed as a real space that is minimally (twice as much) extended in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 V. M. Red'kov

This paper reviews recent attempts to describe the two- and three-qubit Hilbert space geometries with the help of Hopf fibrations. In both cases, it is shown that the associated Hopf map is strongly sensitive to states entanglement content.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Remy Mosseri

Hopf insulators are intriguing three-dimensional topological insulators characterized by an integer topological invariant. They originate from the mathematical theory of Hopf fibration and epitomize the deep connection between knot theory…

Three-dimensional (3D) two-band Hopf insulators are a paradigmatic example of topological phases beyond the topological classifications based on powerful methods like $K$-theory and symmetry indicators.Since this class of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Zhu Wang , Xu-Tao Zeng , Yuanchuan Biao , Zhongbo Yan , Rui Yu
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