Survey of Hopf fibrations and rotation conventions in mathematics and physics
Abstract
We present a unifying framework for understanding several different versions of the Hopf fibration, and use this framework to reconcile two methods of representing rotations of 3-space by unitary matrices--the mathematician's convention based on quaternion algebra, and the physicist's convention based on the Bloch sphere.
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