The connected sum is an operation in topology that combines two manifolds of the same dimension into a single new manifold by removing a small ball from each and gluing the resulting boundary spheres together. For surfaces, repeated connected sums of tori or projective planes with a sphere generate every closed orientable or non-orientable surface, which is the basis of the classification theorem for closed surfaces. The operation generalizes to higher-dimensional manifolds and to knots, where the connected sum of two knots forms a new, generally more complicated knot. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Entity-backed identity for the object-kind enum value this mathematical object already carries, resolved to a mathematics concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The object-kind fact itself stays on the object unchanged.
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In mathematics, specifically in topology, the operation of connected sum is a geometric modification on manifolds.
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