Vector fields on spheres
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vector-fields-on-spheres-302-15346686
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Vector fields on spheres
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In mathematics, the discussion of vector fields on spheres was a classical problem of differential topology, beginning with the hairy ball theorem, and early work on the classification of division algebras. Specifically, the question is how many linearly independent smooth nowhere-zero vector fields can be constructed on a sphere in n -dimensional Euclidean space. A definitive answer was provided in 1962 by Frank Adams. It was already known, by direct construction using Clifford algebras, that t
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How many linearly independent smooth nowhere-zero vector fields can be on an n-sphere
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2023-07-13T11:04:59Z
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