Non-orientable fundamental surfaces in Lens spaces (Q1030175)

The authors consider an infinite sequence of lens spaces and, for each member of the sequence, they give an explicit construction and description of a non-orientable closed surface which is of maximal Euler characteristic (among all closed non-orientable surfaces in the manifold) and fundamental with respect to Haken's matching equation on the ``natural triangulation'' of the lens space, that is the triangulation of a \((p,q)\)-lens space obtained in the following way: Consider the \((p,q)\)-lens space as the identification space of a double suspension (i.e. a double pyramid) over a \(p\)-gon. Cutting the double pyramid in \(p\) slices around its axis of symmetry one obtains a triangulation consisting of \(p\) tetrahedra.