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MORIN'S SURFACE


Bernard Morin (1933-2018): French mathematician.
Article of B. Morin and J.P. Petit on turning a sphere inside out: new.lutecium.org/www.jp-petit.com/science/maths_f/Retournement_sphere/PLS_79.pdf
François Apery: models of the projective plane, page 104.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morin_surface
mathinfo.unistra.fr/fileadmin/upload/IREM/Publications/L_Ouvert/n094/o_94_32-45.pdf
http://www.math-art.eu/Documents/pdfs/Cagliari2013/Cagliari_Denner_Springer-009.pdf

 
François Apery's Cartesian parametrization:  where 

 
 
Morin's surface is an immersion of the sphere that comes up in the central phase of the process of turning a sphere inside out imagined by B. Morin and J.P. Petit (cf. the above article).

J.P. Petit's drawing opposite shows its topology.

The sphere initially had a face colored in grey and a face colored in orange. The swapping of the two faces occurs during the central phase of the process by a simple rotation by .

For n = 2 et k = 1, the above parametrization provides a model (the case n = 3, k = 1 gives Boy's surface).
Opposite, a polyhedral version of this surface owed to J.P. Petit.

Another version is owed to Richard Denner (see the links above).
 

 

Apery's parametrization provides a family of surfaces with rotational symmetry of order n; opposite the case n = 5.

 
 
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