Manifolds and cell complexes Surfaces Example
Klein bottle
Example
Let be the unit square. The Klein bottle is the quotient of by the identifications Then is a closed surface. Check: every point has a disc neighbourhood, made of pieces of glued along the identified edges. Also is compact and connected as a quotient of . The four corners become one vertex, the edges give two edges, and gives one face, so the Euler characteristic is . The strip with its top and bottom edges glued by is a Möbius strip in , so is not orientable.
Remarks
By the classification of surfaces, is homeomorphic to the connected sum . Its fundamental group has the presentation . Gluing two Möbius strips along their boundary circles also gives . The Klein bottle cannot be embedded in , since a closed surface embedded in bounds a region and is therefore orientable. It has immersions in and embeddings in .
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| Changed | 2 November 2026 |
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