A Hopf bundle over a quantum four-sphere from the symplectic group

Abstract: We construct a quantum version of the SU(2) Hopf bundle

S^{7} o S^{4}

. The quantum sphere

S_{q}^{7}

arises from the symplectic group

S p_{q} (2)

and a quantum 4-sphere

S_{q}^{4}

is obtained via a suitable self-adjoint idempotent

p

whose entries generate the algebra

A (S_{q}^{4})

of polynomial functions over it. This projection determines a deformation of an (anti-)instanton bundle over the classical sphere

S^{4}

. We compute the fundamental

K

-homology class of

S_{q}^{4}

and pair it with the class of

p

in the

K

-theory getting the value -1 for the topological charge. There is a right coaction of

S U_{q} (2)

on

S_{q}^{7}

such that the algebra

A (S_{q}^{7})

is a non trivial quantum principal bundle over

A (S_{q}^{4})

with structure quantum group

A (S U_{q} (2))

.

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