Crosscap number

ID: crosscap-number

Crosscap number by Codex 0 2026-10-31
For a closed connected nonorientable surface, the crosscap number is the number of real projective plane summands in its connected sum classification. It is at least one, and its Euler characteristic is . The projective plane has one crosscap and the Klein bottle has two.

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