Abstract
We give a lower bound of the crosscap number of alternating knots using band surgery. This lower bound is equal to the minimum number of the first Betti number, i.e. one minus the maximal Euler characteristic, over all (orientable and non-orientable) surfaces spanning a given alternating knot.
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