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Past exam of the topology course of the University of Oxford 2021 3 c i Solution by
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A complete pairing of the six polygon edges leaves three edges and one face as CW cells, together with the vertex equivalence classes. If denotes their number, then and the polygonal-schema Euler count givesA closed orientable surface of genus two has Euler characteristic . Since the Euler characteristic is a topological invariant, no complete pairing of a hexagon can give that surface. Equivalently, the polygonal-schema Euler count bounds the genus of an orientable result by , so .
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