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I drew a deformation retract of the twice punctured genus 2-torus. It would seem that this should deformation retract to a bouquet of 3 circles.
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One the other hand, computing the Euler-characteristics shows that it should deformation retract to a bouquet of 5 circles.



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  • Can the two punctures be deformed into the middle circle? I would think they would deform to be circles tangent to the two horizontal circles on their outsides.
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I drew a deformation retract of the twice punctured genus 2-torus. It would seem that this should deformation retract to a bouquet of 3 circles.
enter image description here



One the other hand, computing the Euler-characteristics shows that it should deformation retract to a bouquet of 5 circles.



If anyone could explain what I'm doing wrong, I would appreciate it!










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  • Can the two punctures be deformed into the middle circle? I would think they would deform to be circles tangent to the two horizontal circles on their outsides.
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I drew a deformation retract of the twice punctured genus 2-torus. It would seem that this should deformation retract to a bouquet of 3 circles.
enter image description here



One the other hand, computing the Euler-characteristics shows that it should deformation retract to a bouquet of 5 circles.



If anyone could explain what I'm doing wrong, I would appreciate it!










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I drew a deformation retract of the twice punctured genus 2-torus. It would seem that this should deformation retract to a bouquet of 3 circles.
enter image description here



One the other hand, computing the Euler-characteristics shows that it should deformation retract to a bouquet of 5 circles.



If anyone could explain what I'm doing wrong, I would appreciate it!







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  • Can the two punctures be deformed into the middle circle? I would think they would deform to be circles tangent to the two horizontal circles on their outsides.
    – John Douma
    Nov 17 at 23:08


















  • Can the two punctures be deformed into the middle circle? I would think they would deform to be circles tangent to the two horizontal circles on their outsides.
    – John Douma
    Nov 17 at 23:08
















Can the two punctures be deformed into the middle circle? I would think they would deform to be circles tangent to the two horizontal circles on their outsides.
– John Douma
Nov 17 at 23:08




Can the two punctures be deformed into the middle circle? I would think they would deform to be circles tangent to the two horizontal circles on their outsides.
– John Douma
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The shaded areas seem to ignoring the center of each torus as you move the boundary of the puncture points past them and so the third and fourth step are erroneous.






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    The shaded areas seem to ignoring the center of each torus as you move the boundary of the puncture points past them and so the third and fourth step are erroneous.






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      The shaded areas seem to ignoring the center of each torus as you move the boundary of the puncture points past them and so the third and fourth step are erroneous.






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        The shaded areas seem to ignoring the center of each torus as you move the boundary of the puncture points past them and so the third and fourth step are erroneous.






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