nLab Seifert surface

Contents

Context

Knot theory

Topology

topology (point-set topology, point-free topology)

see also differential topology, algebraic topology, functional analysis and topological homotopy theory

Introduction

Basic concepts

Universal constructions

Extra stuff, structure, properties

Examples

Basic statements

Theorems

Analysis Theorems

topological homotopy theory

Contents

Idea

A Seifert surface (named after Herbert Seifert) is an orientable surface whose boundary is a given knot or link. This concept may be extended to higher dimensions where a compact oriented (n+1)(n+1)-manifold forms the boundary of a higher-dimensional link, a disconnected union of mm copies of the nn-sphere as a submanifold of the (n+2)(n+2)-sphere.

Beware that there is also the un-related concept of:

References

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