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  2. Möbius strip - Wikipedia

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    In particular, its fundamental group is the same as the fundamental group of a circle, an infinite cyclic group. Therefore, paths on the Möbius strip that start and end at the same point can be distinguished topologically (up to homotopy) only by the number of times they loop around the strip. [16]

  3. Möbius transformation - Wikipedia

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    This allows showing that the Möbius group is a 3-dimensional complex Lie group (or a 6-dimensional real Lie group), which is a semisimple and non-compact, and that SL(2,C) is a double cover of PSL(2, C). Since SL(2, C) is simply-connected, it is the universal cover of the Möbius group, and the fundamental group of the Möbius group is Z 2.

  4. Klein bottle - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Configuration space (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    It follows from this definition and the fact that ⁡ and ⁡ are Eilenberg–MacLane spaces of type (,), that the unordered configuration space of the plane ⁡ is a classifying space for the Artin braid group, and ⁡ is a classifying space for the pure Artin braid group, when both are considered as discrete groups.

  6. Surface (topology) - Wikipedia

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    The Möbius strip is a surface on which the distinction between clockwise and counterclockwise can be defined locally, but not globally. In general, a surface is said to be orientable if it does not contain a homeomorphic copy of the Möbius strip; intuitively, it has two distinct "sides". For example, the sphere and torus are orientable, while ...

  7. 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]

  8. Fundamental group - Wikipedia

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    Generalizing the statement above, for a family of path connected spaces , the fundamental group () is the free product of the fundamental groups of the . [10] This fact is a special case of the Seifert–van Kampen theorem, which allows to compute, more generally, fundamental groups of spaces that are glued together from other spaces.

  9. Vector bundle - Wikipedia

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    is a smooth function into the matrix group GL(k,R), which is a Lie group. Similarly, if the transition functions are: C r then the vector bundle is a C r vector bundle, real analytic then the vector bundle is a real analytic vector bundle (this requires the matrix group to have a real analytic structure),