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3D space, while the second stands for a vector field. (A three-vector, its direction plus length, can be thought of as specifying a point on a 3-sphere. The orientation of the vector specifies a subgroup of the orthogonal group ; the length fixes a point. This has a double covering by the unitary group , and .) Such maps occur in PDE's describing vector

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