Tensor powers of the hyperplane line bundle Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
For positive take the th tensor power of the hyperplane line bundle; for negative take the corresponding power of its dual; for take the trivial line bundle. On the complex projective line, global sections for correspond to polynomials of degree at most and form a space of dimension .
For and , the tautological frames and differ by . Normalize their ambient Hermitian form norms; the resulting frames differ by the displayed phase. The unit circle total space is and its projection to the complex projective line is the Hopf fibration. The transition of the dual line is the reciprocal phase.