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A surface is a two-dimensional topological manifold. The term can also be used to describe a smooth surface, depending on the context.

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Essential surfaces in the Exterior of Montesinos knots

, and he gave criteria for when such tubings produce incompressible surfaces. … From this one sees that closed incompressible surfaces exist in most cases. …
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Homotopy classes of homeomorphisms of a multiple pointed space

For more complicated surfaces such as closed surfaces of positive genus the map $$ \pi_0{\rm Homeo^+}(M\ {\rm rel} \ P)\to \pi_0{\rm HomEq^+}(M\ {\rm rel} \ P) $$ again has a nontrivial kernel as long …
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Handle decompositions using only 1-handles

The second statement ought to be in the literature somewhere but I don't know a reference so I'll give an argument. The result can be rephrased in terms of graphs. Let $S$ be a compact connected sur …
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Homotopy versus path-homotopy on punctured surface

The special feature of $X$, a sphere with three or more punctures, that is being used here is that the space $E(X)$ of all homotopy equivalences $X\to X$ has $\pi_1 E(X)=0$. (Here we take the identity …
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