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The Cayley-Dickson Construction in Homotopy Type Theory

Algebraic Topology 2016-10-06 v1 Logic in Computer Science Category Theory Logic

Abstract

We define in the setting of homotopy type theory an H-space structure on S3\mathbb S^3. Hence we obtain a description of the quaternionic Hopf fibration S3S7S4\mathbb S^3\hookrightarrow\mathbb S^7\twoheadrightarrow\mathbb S^4, using only homotopy invariant tools.

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@article{arxiv.1610.01134,
  title  = {The Cayley-Dickson Construction in Homotopy Type Theory},
  author = {Ulrik Buchholtz and Egbert Rijke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01134},
  year   = {2016}
}

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21 pages

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