4-sphere S^4

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The 4-sphere S⁴ is the four-dimensional analogue of the ordinary sphere, a compact, smooth, simply connected manifold that serves as a fundamental object in topology and differential geometry.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Riemannian manifold
closed manifold
compact manifold
connected manifold
differentiable manifold
homology sphere
n-sphere
oriented manifold
simply connected manifold
smooth manifold
topological space
admitsRoundMetric true
boundaryOf 5-ball B^5
canBeDescribedAs SO(5)/SO(4)
cohomologyRing Z[α]/(α^2) with deg(α)=4
constantSectionalCurvature 1
definedAs {x in R^5 : ||x|| = 1}
dimension 4
embeddedIn R^5
EulerCharacteristic 2
fundamentalGroup trivial group
generalizes 2-sphere S^2
3-sphere S^3
hasCanonicalRiemannianMetric round metric
homologyGroupH_0 Z
homologyGroupH_1 0
homologyGroupH_2 0
homologyGroupH_3 0
homologyGroupH_4 Z
isBoundary true
isCompact true
isConnected true
isModelSpaceFor constant positive curvature geometry in dimension 4
isOrientable true
isParallelizable false
isPrototypeOf compact simply connected 4-manifold
isSimplyConnected true
isSimplyConnectedAtInfinity true
isSimplyConnectedHomologySphere true
isSymmetricSpace true
notation S^4
pi_1 0
pi_2 0
pi_3 Z
pi_4 Z_2
usedIn differential geometry
gauge theory
general relativity NERFINISHED
homotopy theory
topology

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Yang monopole baseSpace 4-sphere S^4