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A surface is a real 2D (two-dimensional) manifold M 2, i.e., a Hausdorff space, each point of which has a neighborhood which is homeomorphic to a plane \(\mathbb{E}^{2}\), or a closed half-plane (cf. Chap. 7).
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Deza, M.M., Deza, E. (2016). Distances on Surfaces and Knots. In: Encyclopedia of Distances. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52844-0_8
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