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A Minimal Triangulation of the Hopf Map and its Application

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We give a minimal triangulation η: S 312 →S 24 of the Hopf map h: S 3→S 2 and use it to obtain a new construction of the 9-vertex complex projective plane.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India

    K.V. Madahar & K.S. Sarkaria

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Madahar, K., Sarkaria, K. A Minimal Triangulation of the Hopf Map and its Application. Geometriae Dedicata 82, 105–114 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005102800486

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