HURWITZ THEOREM AND PARALLELIZABLE SPHERES FROM TENSOR ANALYSIS

Abstract

By using tensor analysis, we find a connection between normed algebras and the parallelizability of the spheres S 1, S 3 and S 7. In this process, we discovered the analog of Hurwitz theorem for curved spaces and a geometrical unified formalism for the metric and the torsion. In order to achieve these goals we first develop a proof of Hurwitz theorem based on tensor analysis. It turns out that in contrast to the doubling procedure and Clifford algebra mechanism, our proof is entirely based on tensor algebra applied to the normed algebra condition. From the tersor analysis point of view our proof is straightforward and short. We also discuss a possible connection between our formalism and the Cayley–Dickson algebras and Hopf maps.