James embedding

In mathematics, the James embedding is an embedding of a real, complex, or hyperbolic projective space into a sphere, introduced by Ioan James (1958, 1959).

References

James, I. M. (1958), "Embeddings of real projective spaces", Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc., 54: 555–557, doi:10.1017/S0305004100003108, MR 0096228
James, I. M. (1959), "Some embeddings of projective spaces", Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc., 55: 294–298, doi:10.1017/S0305004100034083, MR 0109350

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