Essential closed surfaces in surface sum of product I-bundle of closed surfaces

Abstract

In this paper, we will give some results on the classification of essential closed surfaces in the surface sum of product I-bundle of closed surfaces and some applications of these results.

Keywords

Surface sum / product I-bundle / essential surface / Haken-Kneser number

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