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单词 Antipodal
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antipodal


DefinitionSuppose x and y are points on then-sphere (http://planetmath.org/Sphere) Sn.If x=-y then x andy are called antipodal points. Theantipodal map is the map A:SnSn defined asA(x)=-x.

Properties

  1. 1.

    The antipodal mapA:SnSn ishomotopic (http://planetmath.org/HomotopyOfMaps)to the identity map if n is odd [1].

  2. 2.

    The degree (http://planetmath.org/DegreeMapOfSpheres) of theantipodal map is (-1)n+1.

References

  • 1 V. Guillemin, A. Pollack,Differential topology, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1974.
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