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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2007 / ii / Paper 1 / 21H / i

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The polygon presentation of the Klein bottle, or Seifert-van Kampen theorem applied to its cell structure, gives
π1​(K)=⟨a,b∣aba−1=b−1⟩.​
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Send a to (12) and b to (123) in S3​. Conjugation by (12) inverts (123), so this defines a surjective group homomorphism. Since S3​ is nonabelian, the fundamental group is nonabelian.

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