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Parallelizable Spheres

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 5:04 pm
by Tsakanikas Nickos
Recall the following

Definition: A smooth manifold is called parallelizable if its tangent bundle is trivial.


For which $ n \in \mathbb{N} $ is the unit sphere $ \mathbb{S}^{n} $ parallelizable?