Real Projective Plane - Higher Non-orientable Surfaces

Higher Non-orientable Surfaces

By glueing together projective planes successively we get non-orientable surfaces of higher demigenus. The glueing process consists of cutting out a little disk from each surface and identifying (glueing) their boundary circles. Glueing two projective planes creates the Klein bottle.

The article on the fundamental polygon describes the higher non-orientable surfaces.

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