The well-known Hopf fibration $S^1 \rightarrow S^3 \rightarrow S^2$ has explicit constructions involving the geometry of $C^2$ and intersections of complex lines with the $3$-sphere. They don't seem to generalize easily to "higher" Hopf maps from $S^3 \rightarrow S^2$ with Hopf invariant not equal to one. Are there any simple expressions for those maps?



Construction of maps $f:S^3 \to S^2$ with arbitrary Hopf invariant?
You can get them by precomposing with a degree $n$ map from $S^3$ to itself. In particular, this gives an interpretation in terms of the group structure: if $h:S^3 \to S^2$ is the Hopf map (which is just modding out by the subgroup $S^1=U(1)$ of $S^3=Sp(1)$, then a map of Hopf invariant n is given by $x \mapsto h(x^n)$, where $x^n$ is using the group multiplication on $S^3$.


