Hopf fibration

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The Hopf fibration is a fundamental construction in topology that describes the 3-sphere as a fiber bundle of circles over the 2-sphere, revealing deep connections between geometry, algebra, and higher-dimensional spaces.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Hopf fibration canonical 7
3-sphere S^3 2
Hopf bundle 2

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Statements (64)

Predicate Object
instanceOf circle bundle
fiber bundle
map between manifolds
principal bundle
topological construction
hasApplicationIn Berry phase
Skyrme models
linked to: Skyrme model

magnetic monopoles
quantum spin systems
topological solitons
hasBaseSpace 2-sphere
hasBaseSpaceIdentifiedWith CP^1
complex projective line
hasDimensionOfBaseSpace 2
hasDimensionOfFiber 1
hasDimensionOfTotalSpace 3
hasFiber 1-sphere
circle
hasFiberDescribedAs orbits of the U(1) action on S^3
hasHopfInvariant 1
hasProperty admits connection with nonzero curvature
fibers are pairwise linked circles in S^3
is not isomorphic to the trivial bundle S^2 × S^1
hasStructureGroup S^1
U(1)
hasStructureGroupIdentifiedWith U(1)
hasTotalSpace 3-sphere
hasTotalSpaceIdentifiedWith SU(2)
unit sphere in C^2
hasTypicalFiber S^1
isDenotedBy S^3 → S^2
isExampleOf Seifert fibration
map of Hopf invariant 1
nontrivial fiber bundle
nontrivial principal bundle
spherical fibration
isGeneralizedBy S^7 → S^4 Hopf fibration
linked to: Hopf fibration

S^{15} → S^8 Hopf fibration
higher Hopf fibrations
isNamedAfter Heinz Hopf
isPrincipalBundleOver 2-sphere
isPrincipalBundleWithGroup circle
isProjectionOnto CP^1
linked to: Riemann sphere
isRelatedTo Clifford algebras
linked to: Clifford algebra

complex numbers
homotopy groups of spheres
quaternions
linked to: Quaternions

π_3(S^2)
isStudiedIn differential geometry courses
graduate-level topology
isUsedIn Riemannian geometry
bundle theory
complex geometry
contact geometry
gauge theory
homotopy theory
quantum field theory
twistor theory
linked to: twistor space
isUsedToShow π_3(S^2) is nontrivial
isVisualizedBy linked circles in 3-space
representsElementOf π_3(S^2)
wasIntroducedBy Heinz Hopf
wasIntroducedInField algebraic topology
differential topology

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Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Heinz Hopf notableWork Hopf fibration
SU(2) isTopologically 3-sphere S^3
subject linked to: rotation group SU(2)
linked to: Hopf fibration
Heinz Hopf notableFor Hopf fibration
subject linked to: Hopf
Heinz Hopf notableFor Hopf bundle
subject linked to: Hopf
linked to: Hopf fibration
Hopf hasNotableMathematicalConceptNamedAfter Hopf bundle
linked to: Hopf fibration
Heinz Hopf notableFor Hopf fibration
subject linked to: Gräbschen
Hopf fibration isGeneralizedBy S^7 → S^4 Hopf fibration
linked to: Hopf fibration
Hopf invariant relatedTo Hopf fibration
Über die Abbildungen der dreidimensionalen Sphäre auf die Kugelfläche mainTopic Hopf fibration
Über die Abbildungen der dreidimensionalen Sphäre auf die Kugelfläche introduces Hopf fibration
Kirby calculus typicalAmbientSpace 3-sphere S^3
linked to: Hopf fibration