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Klein Bottle Dissection


A Klein bottle dissection into unequal squares can be obtained by gluing the edge of a Möbius strip dissection. Stewart (1997) asserted that all such dissections with six or fewer squares arose this way and that the seven- and eight-square cases were unknown. Morley (2014) refuted the first claim by exhibiting four-square dissections not obtained from a Möbius strip dissection. He also gave examples with seven and eight distinct squares, resolving the cases Stewart had described as unknown.

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The Klein bottle dissections illustrated above are two of Morley's four-square examples, each using squares of sides 1, 2, 3, and 4. The left-hand example has a rectangular fundamental domain of dimensions 5sqrt(2)×3sqrt(2), with one pair of opposite sides identified in reverse orientation. The arrows indicate the identifications of opposite sides (Morley 2014).


See also

Cylinder Dissection, Möbius Strip Dissection, Perfect Square Dissection, Torus Dissection

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References

Morley, G. H. "Perfect Squared Klein Bottle Myths." Jan. 2014. https://www.squaring.net/downloads/GHMPSKB1.pdf.Morley, G. H. "Faultfree Perfect Squared Klein Bottles of Orders 4-7." Feb. 2014. https://www.squaring.net/downloads/FPSKBs4-7custom2.pdf.Stewart, I. "Squaring the Square." Sci. Amer. 277, 94-96, July 1997.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Klein Bottle Dissection." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/KleinBottleDissection.html

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