Examples
An example of a Riemannian submersion arises when a Lie group acts isometrically, freely and properly on a Riemannian manifold . The projection to the quotient space equipped with the quotient metric is a Riemannian submersion. For example, component-wise multiplication on by the group of unit complex numbers yields the Hopf fibration.
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