Dissecting the torus by immersions (Q964188)

For a generic immersion (not an embedding) of the torus \(T\) into the real 3-space, let \(M\) be the self-intersection set and denote the number of triple points, the number of the boundary components of genus 1 component of \(T-M\)(if any), and the numbers of planar components with \(k\) boundary components of \(T-M\), by \(2n\;(n\geq 0), l\;(l\geq 0)\) and \(a_k\;(k\geq 1)\), respectively. Then, the author determines, in Theorem 2, a necessary and sufficient condition for the triple \((n,\;l,\;\{ a_k\}_{k\geq 1})\) to be realized by a generic immersion of the torus into the real 3-space. The method used here is similar to that in [\textit{T. Nowik}, Geom. Dedicata, 127, 37--41 (2007; Zbl 1125.57012)].