antipodal
DefinitionSuppose and are points on the-sphere (http://planetmath.org/Sphere) .If then and are called antipodal points. Theantipodal map is the map defined as.
Properties
- 1.
The antipodal map ishomotopic (http://planetmath.org/HomotopyOfMaps)to the identity map if is odd [1].
- 2.
The degree (http://planetmath.org/DegreeMapOfSpheres) of theantipodal map is .
References
- 1 V. Guillemin, A. Pollack,Differential topology, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1974.