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Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications SIGMA 6 (2010), 071, 42 pages Hopf Maps, Lowest Landau Level, and Fuzzy Spheres Kazuki HASEBE Kagawa National College of Technology, Mitoyo, Kagawa 769-1192, Japan E-mail: hasebe@dg.kagawa-nct.ac.jp Received May 05, 2010, in final form August 19, 2010; Published online September 07, 2010 doi:10.3842/SIGMA.2010.071 Abstract. This paper is a review of monopoles, lowest Landau level, fuzzy spheres, and their mutual relations. The Hopf maps of division algebras provide a prototype relation between monopoles and fuzzy spheres. Generalization of complex numbers to Clifford al- gebra is exactly analogous to generalization of fuzzy two-spheres to higher dimensional fuzzy spheres. Higher dimensional fuzzy spheres have an interesting hierarchical structure made of “compounds” of lower dimensional spheres. We give a physical interpretation for such particular structure of fuzzy spheres by utilizing Landau models in generic even dimensions. With Grassmann algebra, we also introduce a graded version of the Hopf map, and discuss its relation to fuzzy supersphere in context of supersymmetric Landau model. Key words: division algebra; Clifford algebra; Grassmann algebra; Hopf map; non-Abelian monopole; Landau model; fuzzy geometry 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 17B70; 58B34; 81V70 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Hopf maps and division algebras 3 3 1st Hopf map and fuzzy two-sphere 5 3.1 1st Hopf map and U