Unit sphere fibrations in Euclidean space

DOI10.1017/S0013091524000038MaRDI QIDQ6415057zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Daniel Asimov, Florian Frick, Michael Harrison, Wesley Pegden

Publication date 25 October 2022

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0013091524000038

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

Abstract: We show that if an open set in $mathbb{R}^d$ can be fibered by unit $n$-spheres, then $dgeq2n+1$, and if $d=2n+1$, then the spheres must be pairwise linked, and $ninleft0,1,3,7ight$. For these values of $n$, we construct unit $n$-sphere fibrations in $mathbb{R}^{2n+1}$.

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