Combinatorial construction of tangent vector fields on spheres
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Publication:2518007
DOI10.1134/S0001434608030279zbMath1169.57026MaRDI QIDQ2518007
Publication date: 12 January 2009
Published in: Mathematical Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)
Clifford algebra; Cayley number; composition of quadratic forms; odd-dimensional sphere; Hurwitz-Radon number; Hurwitz-Radon theorem; independent tangent vector fields
57R25: Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology
15A66: Clifford algebras, spinors
15A63: Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products
17A75: Composition algebras
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