Triple points and surgery of immersed surfaces
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- by Thomas F. Banchoff PDF
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (1974), 407-413 Request permission
Abstract:
For a sufficiently general immersion of a smooth or polyhedral closed $2$-dimensional surface into Euclidean $3$-space, the number of triple points is congruent modulo 2 to the Euler characteristic. The approach of this paper involves elementary notions of modification of surfaces by surgery.References
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- © Copyright 1974 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (1974), 407-413
- MSC: Primary 57A35; Secondary 57D45, 57D40
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1974-0377897-1
- MathSciNet review: 0377897