Solution

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Label the hexagon polygon vertices in the direction in which its boundary word is , with the first side running from to . Matching the endpoints according to the arrows gives
Thus the two vertex equivalence classes are and .
The polygonal schema gives a compact connected surface with empty manifold boundary. Interior points have disc neighbourhoods; a paired polygon edge glues two half-disc neighbourhoods into a disc. At each of the two vertex equivalence classes, its three corner sectors join cyclically, so the vertex link in a polygonal schema is a circle, again giving a disc neighbourhood. Pairing every label once positively and once negatively makes these gluings consistent with an orientation, so the resulting surface is orientable.
The resulting CW complex has CW cells comprising two vertices, three edges and one face. Its Euler characteristic is
By the classification of compact surfaces, a connected closed orientable surface with has genus satisfying , hence . The quotient space is a torus.

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