A Fiber Bundle over the Quaternionic Slice Regular Functions

Abstract

Several topological methods have been used successfully in the study of the hypercomplex analysis; for example, in the theory of functions of several complex variables (Grauert et al., in: Encyclopaedia of mathematical science, vol. 74, Springer, 1991, Hirzebruch, in: Topological methods in algebraic geometry, Classics in Mathematics. Reprint of the 1978 Edition. Springer, Berlin, 1995, Krantz, in Function theory of several complex variables, 2nd edn. American Mathematical Society, Providence, 2001), in the Clifford analysis (Sabadini et al. in Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras 24:1131–1143, 2014), and in the theory of slice regular functions (Colombo et al. in Math Nachr 285:949–958, 2012). Particularly, the fiber bundle is one of these topological subjects that had an intensive development in a number of papers (Bernstein and Philips in Sci Am 245(1):122–137, 1981, Bleecker, in: Guage Theory and Variational Principles. Dover Books on physics Dover Books on mathematics. Courier Corporation, North Chelmsford, 2005, Bredon in Topology and geometry, Springer, Berlin, 1913, Cohen in The topology of fiber bundles, Stanford University, Stanford, 1998, Hatcher in Algebraic-Topology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002, Husemoller in fibre bundles, 3rd edn, Springer, Berlin, 1993, Steenrod in The topology of fibre bundles, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1951, Walschap in Metric structures in differential geometry, Springer, New York, 2004, Weatherall in Synthese 193:2389–2425, 2016). The aim of this work is to show how the Splitting Lemma and the Representation Formula intrinsically determine a fiber bundle over the space of quaternionic slice regular functions and as a consequence, several properties of this function space are interpreted in terms of sections, pullbacks and isomorphism of fiber bundles.