Gluck and Ziller proved that Hopf vector fields on $S^{3}$ have minimum
volume among all unit vector fields. Thinking of $S^{3}$ as a Lie group,
Hopf vector fields are exactly those with unit length which are left or
right invariant, and $TS^{3}$ is a trivial vector bundle with a connection
induced by the adjoint representation. We prove the analogue of the stated
result of Gluck and Ziller for the representation given by quaternionic
multiplication. The resulting vector bundle over $S^{3}$, with the Sasaki
metric, has as well no parallel unit sections.
We provide an application of a double point calibration,
proving that the submanifolds determined by the left
and right invariant sections minimize volume in their homology classes.