Triple Points and Surgery of Immersed Surfaces
- 1 December 1974
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
- Vol. 46 (3) , 407-413
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2039938
Abstract
For a sufficiently general immersion of a smooth or polyhedral closed -dimensional surface into Euclidean -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.Keywords
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- Triple Points and Singularities of Projections of Smoothly Immersed SurfacesProceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1974