Gluing annuli with one reflected boundary
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Glue the outer circles of two closed annuli by the identity, and their inner circles by complex conjugation. The result is a Klein bottle. To see the gluing explicitly, let and . Parametrize the first annulus by , with , and the second by , with . The outer-circle gluing identifies their common level . The remaining gluing isThis is the mapping torus of reflection of the circle. The coordinate maps and their piecewise inverses agree on every identified boundary, so the universal property of the quotient topology gives inverse continuous maps between the two quotient descriptions. Gluing collars by the reflection supplies disc charts at the seam; thus it is a closed surface. Cutting the circle coordinate at one point gives a rectangle with one matching and one reversed edge pairing, the usual Klein-bottle model. Its Euler characteristic is zero and it is a nonorientable surface, so the classification theorem identifies it with the connected sum of two real projective planes.
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