Projective Planes with Handles


This provides tight polyhedral examples of all surfaces with odd \chi \le -3.

This does not provide smooth examples, however. (Pinkall and Kühnel's procedure for smoothing a tight polyhedral model does not apply to these models.)

Otto uses a different set of models to generate smooth versions of the projective plane with three or more handles (\chi \le -5).


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