Quantum Stiefel manifolds were introduced by Vainerman and Podkolzin, who classified the irreducible representations of the C * -algebras underlying such manifolds. We compute the K -groups of the quantum homogeneous spaces SU q (n)/SU q (n − 2) for n ≥ 3. In the case n = 3, we show that K 1 is a free -ޚmodule, and the fundamental unitary for quantum SU(3) is part of a basis for K 1 .
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