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  2. Hypersurface - Wikipedia

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    Hypersurfaces share, with surfaces in a three-dimensional space, the property of being defined by a single implicit equation, at least locally (near every point), and sometimes globally. A hypersurface in a (Euclidean, affine, or projective) space of dimension two is a plane curve. In a space of dimension three, it is a surface.

  3. Surface (topology) - Wikipedia

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    Examples of closed surfaces include the sphere, the torus and the Klein bottle. Examples of non-closed surfaces include an open disk (which is a sphere with a puncture), an open cylinder (which is a sphere with two punctures), and the Möbius strip. A surface embedded in three-dimensional space is

  4. Planetary surface - Wikipedia

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    A planetary surface is where the solid or liquid material of certain types of astronomical objects contacts the atmosphere or outer space. Planetary surfaces are found on solid objects of planetary mass, including terrestrial planets (including Earth), dwarf planets, natural satellites, planetesimals and many other small Solar System bodies ...

  5. K3 surface - Wikipedia

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    So there are 19-dimensional families of complex analytic K3 surfaces with an elliptic fibration, and 18-dimensional moduli spaces of projective K3 surfaces with an elliptic fibration. Example: Every smooth quartic surface X in that contains a line L has an elliptic fibration , given by projecting away from L. The moduli space of all smooth ...

  6. Orientability - Wikipedia

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    A torus is an orientable surface The Möbius strip is a non-orientable surface. Note how the disk flips with every loop. The Roman surface is non-orientable.. In mathematics, orientability is a property of some topological spaces such as real vector spaces, Euclidean spaces, surfaces, and more generally manifolds that allows a consistent definition of "clockwise" and "anticlockwise". [1]

  7. List of complex and algebraic surfaces - Wikipedia

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    Quotient surfaces, surfaces that are constructed as the orbit space of some other surface by the action of a finite group; examples include Kummer, Godeaux, Hopf, and Inoue surfaces; Zariski surfaces, surfaces in finite characteristic that admit a purely inseparable dominant rational map from the projective plane

  8. Differential geometry of surfaces - Wikipedia

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    Simple examples. A simple example of a regular surface is given by the 2-sphere {(x, y, z) | x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = 1}; this surface can be covered by six Monge patches (two of each of the three types given above), taking h(u, v) = ± (1 − u 2 − v 2) 1/2. It can also be covered by two local parametrizations, using stereographic projection.

  9. Two-dimensional space - Wikipedia

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    A two-dimensional space is a mathematical space with two dimensions, meaning points have two degrees of freedom: their locations can be locally described with two coordinates or they can move in two independent directions. Common two-dimensional spaces are often called planes, or, more generally, surfaces. These include analogs to physical ...