Classification of Surfaces

C. Paul Bonnington and Charles H. C. Little
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C. Paul Bonnington: University of Auckland, Department of Mathematics
Charles H. C. Little: Massey University, Department of Mathematics

Chapter 3 in The Foundations of Topological Graph Theory, 1995, pp 39-51 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Tutte (1984) approached the classification of surfaces from a combinatorial viewpoint. In this chapter, we show how the classification of surfaces by means of 3-graphs follows from Tutte’s approach and the relationship between 3-graphs and premaps.

Keywords: Planar Graph; Euler Characteristic; Inverse Operation; Blue Edge; Connected Planar Graph (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2540-9_3

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