Skew flat fibrations

Abstract: A fibration of

{m a t h b b R}^{n}

by oriented copies of

{m a t h b b R}^{p}

is called skew if no two fibers intersect nor contain parallel directions. Conditions on

p

and

n

for the existence of such a fibration were given by Ovsienko and Tabachnikov. A classification of smooth fibrations of

{m a t h b b R}^{3}

by skew oriented lines was given by Salvai, in analogue with the classification of oriented great circle fibrations of

S^{3}

by Gluck and Warner. We show that Salvai's classification has a topological variation which generalizes to characterize all continuous fibrations of

{m a t h b b R}^{n}

by skew oriented copies of

{m a t h b b R}^{p}

. We show that the space of fibrations of

{m a t h b b R}^{3}

by skew oriented lines deformation retracts to the subspace of Hopf fibrations, and therefore has the homotopy type of a pair of disjoint copies of

S^{2}

. We discuss skew fibrations in the complex and quaternionic setting and give a necessary condition for the existence of a fibration of

{m a t h b b C}^{n}

(

{m a t h b b H}^{n}

) by skew oriented copies of

{m a t h b b C}^{p}

(

{m a t h b b H}^{p}

).

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