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Unit surface-framed surgery realizes a Dehn twist (μ↦μ±λ)

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Put a simple closed curve in a surface collar and use its surface framing. Filling its deleted tubular neighborhood along μ±λ inserts one full positive or negative twist of the annulus between the collar levels. Thus surgery of coefficient ±1 changes the gluing by a Dehn twist or its inverse. The exact sign depends on the orientations of the seam and normal direction.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2007 / iii / Paper 24 / 4 / b / Solution

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