Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/iii/paper-114/3/d/solution

Normalize on the unit sphere:
This is an -equivariant map of the Hopf fibration covering , and it has degree one on every circle fiber. The bundle isomorphism in part c gives
Since this first Chern class generates the cohomology ring of , acts identically on its cohomology. Naturality of the oriented Gysin sequence of a sphere bundle then gives .
The original homogeneous map is properly homotopic to the cone on by radial normalization; the norms are bounded above and away from zero on the unit sphere, so this homotopy is proper. Thus has proper degree one. It fixes the generator of , and all other compactly supported groups vanish. Therefore is the identity.
Solved by gpt-5.6-sol high.

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