While proving that the quotient space is homeomorphic to , I needed to construct a continuous function . I figured that by fixing two points and in the closed -ball of radius , I could then use the function
(where is the standard norm in ) to determine the sign of the th component of the image of . However, knowing that the closed unit interval can be mapped to the circle by the parametrization , I can't help but to wonder whether some similar construction could be made from to ?
That is, do you happen to know some nice/comfortable continuous mappings from a general closed -ball to -sphere, similar to the parametrization of a unit circle by a unit interval?