# Klein surface

Klein bottle

A closed one-sided surface of genus 1 (see Fig. a, a, b).

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The Klein surface can be obtained from a square $ABCD$ (see Fig. b) by identifying the points of the line segments $AB$ and $CD$ lying on the lines parallel to the side $AD$ and the points of the segments $BC$ and $AD$ symmetric with respect to the centre of the square $ABCD$.

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The Klein surface can be topologically imbedded in the $4$-dimensional Euclidean space, but not in $3$-dimensional space.

Attention was drawn to the Klein surface by F. Klein (1874).

A Klein bottle can be obtained by glueing together two crosscaps (Möbius bands, cf. Möbius strip) along their boundaries. The homology of the Klein bottle $K$ is: $H_0(K;\mathbf Z)=\mathbf Z$, $H_1(K;\mathbf Z)=\mathbf Z\oplus\mathbf Z/(2)$, $H_2(K;\mathbf Z)=0$. Its Euler characteristic is $\chi(K)=0$. Together with the torus it is the only smooth $2$-dimensional surface which admits deformations of the identity mapping that have no fixed points.

#### References

 [a1] D.W. Blackett, "Elementary topology" , Acad. Press (1967) [a2] K. Jänich, "Topology" , Springer (1984) (Translated from German) [a3] J. Mayer, "Algebraic topology" , Prentice-Hall (1972)
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Klein surface. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Klein_surface&oldid=31839
This article was adapted from an original article by E.V. Shikin (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article