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A two-dimensional representation of the Klein bottle immersed in three-dimensional space. In mathematics, the Klein bottle (/ ˈ k l aɪ n /) is an example of a non-orientable surface; that is, informally, a one-sided surface which, if traveled upon, could be followed back to the point of origin while flipping the traveler upside down.
In wormhole theory, a non-orientable wormhole is a wormhole connection that appears to reverse the chirality of anything passed through it. It is related to the "twisted" connections normally used to construct a Möbius strip or Klein bottle. In topology, this sort of connection is referred to as an Alice handle [citation needed].
In mathematics, a solid Klein bottle is a three-dimensional topological space (a 3-manifold) whose boundary is the Klein bottle. [ 1 ] It is homeomorphic to the quotient space obtained by gluing the top disk of a cylinder D 2 × I {\displaystyle \scriptstyle D^{2}\times I} to the bottom disk by a reflection across a diameter of the disk.
The Klein bottle can be turned into a Klein surface (compact, without boundary); there is a one-parameter family of inequivalent Klein surfaces structures defined on the Klein bottle. Similarly, there is a one-parameter family of inequivalent Klein surface structures (compact, with boundary) defined on the Möbius strip. [2]
Chirality (/ k aɪ ˈ r æ l ɪ t i /) is a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science. The word chirality is derived from the Greek χείρ (kheir), "hand", a familiar chiral object. An object or a system is chiral if it is distinguishable from its mirror image; that is, it cannot be superposed (not to be confused with ...
The chirality property of three-dimensional space is missing on the Moebius strip and Klein bottle. Turning to the temporal extension of space, there are worldlines and in the world-bars of beings "most of the fibers stay together as a group".
A Klein bottle has non-orientable genus 2. Knot. The genus of a knot K is defined as the minimal genus of all Seifert surfaces for K. [4] A Seifert surface of a knot ...
Lawson's Klein bottle is a self-crossing minimal surface in the unit hypersphere of 4-dimensional space, the set of points of the form ( , , , ) for <, <. [53] Half of this Klein bottle, the subset with 0 ≤ ϕ < π {\displaystyle 0\leq \phi <\pi } , gives a Möbius strip embedded in the hypersphere as a minimal ...