Kuiper's Results


Tight immersions exist for:
  • All orientable surfaces
  • All non-orientable surfaces with \chi\le-2.

No tight immersions are possible for:

  • The real projective plane (\chi=1).
  • The Klein bottle (\chi=0).
No information about \RP2 with one handle (\chi=-1).


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