In mathematics, the y-homeomorphism, or crosscap slide, is a special type of auto-homeomorphism in non-orientable surfaces.

It can be constructed by sliding a Möbius band included on the surface around an essential 1-sided closed curve until the original position; thus it is necessary that the surfaces have genus greater than one. The projective plane ${\displaystyle {\mathbb {R} P}^{2}}$ has no y-homeomorphism.

See also

• Lickorish-Wallace theorem

References

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• W. B. R. Lickorish, Homeomorphisms of non-orientable two-manifolds, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 59 (1963), 307–317.