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Using elementary methods in analysis and vector bundle theory, we present the Atiyah-Bott proof of the complex periodicity theorem. In this setting we see the role of the Hopf bundle in defining the periodicity isomorphism.
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Husemoller, D. (1994). Bott Periodicity in the Complex Case. In: Fibre Bundles. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 20. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2261-1_11
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