View Full Version : Transfinite donuts?
HarryWertM
Apr28-10, 01:09 AM
Has anyone ever developed any sort of math involving donuts with an infinite number of holes? By donut, I mean a two-dimensional closed surface, curved in 3-space, with one 'hole'. Are there any results, of any kind, for 2-D donuts in 3-D space, with infinite number of holes?
zhentil
Apr28-10, 06:57 AM
I think they're about as well understood as the donut with one hole. Riemann surfaces are one of the most thoroughly understood branches of mathematics.
lavinia
Apr30-10, 11:48 AM
Could you construct a doughnut with uncountable many holes ? It would not be a paracompact manifold.
Sine Nomine
Apr30-10, 12:45 PM
You mean something like S\times I, where S is the unit disk with the rational points inside a circle of radius 1/2 centered at the origin deleted?
lavinia
Apr30-10, 08:43 PM
You mean something like S\times I, where S is the unit disk with the rational points inside a circle of radius 1/2 centered at the origin deleted?
Not sure how that example is a torus.
I was thinking more of the long line Cartesian product the circle with uncountably many holes removed.
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