#hopf_fibration

Hopf fibration

Fiber bundle of the 3-sphere over the 2-sphere, with 1-spheres as fibers

In differential topology, the Hopf fibration describes a 3-sphere in terms of circles and an ordinary sphere. Discovered by Heinz Hopf in 1931, it is an influential early example of a fiber bundle. Technically, Hopf found a many-to-one continuous function from the 3-sphere onto the 2-sphere such that each distinct point of the 2-sphere is mapped from a distinct great circle of the 3-sphere. Thus the 3-sphere is composed of fibers, where each fiber is a circle — one for each point of the 2-sphere.

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