# nLab round sphere

Contents

### Context

#### Spheres

n-sphere

low dimensional n-spheres

#### Riemannian geometry

Riemannian geometry

# Contents

## Idea

In Riemannian geometry, the topological n-sphere regarded as a Riemannian manifold in the standard way (i.e. as the submanifold of elements at constant distance from a given point in Euclidean space) is also called the round $n$-sphere, in order to distinguish it from other, non-isometric Riemannian manifold structures that also exists on some n-sphere. These alternatives are then also called squashed spheres.

## Examples of squashed $n$-spheres

coset space-structures on n-spheres:

standard:
$S^{n-1} \simeq_{diff} SO(n)/SO(n-1)$this Prop.
$S^{2n-1} \simeq_{diff} SU(n)/SU(n-1)$this Prop.
$S^{4n-1} \simeq_{diff} Sp(n)/Sp(n-1)$this Prop.
exceptional:
$S^7 \simeq_{diff} Spin(7)/G_2$Spin(7)/G2 is the 7-sphere
$S^7 \simeq_{diff} Spin(6)/SU(3)$since Spin(6) $\simeq$ SU(4)
$S^7 \simeq_{diff} Spin(5)/SU(2)$since Sp(2) is Spin(5) and Sp(1) is SU(2), see Spin(5)/SU(2) is the 7-sphere
$S^6 \simeq_{diff} G_2/SU(3)$G2/SU(3) is the 6-sphere
$S^15 \simeq_{diff} Spin(9)/Spin(7)$Spin(9)/Spin(7) is the 15-sphere

(from FSS 19, 3.4)

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