Topological Surgery in Nature
arXiv:1706.04078 · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68103-0_15
Abstract
In this paper, we extend the formal definition of topological surgery by introducing new notions in order to model natural phenomena exhibiting it. On the one hand, the common features of the presented natural processes are captured by our schematic models and, on the other hand, our new definitions provide the theoretical setting for examining the topological changes involved in these processes.
23 pages, 11 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1603.03644