Abstract

This paper is devoted to extend some well-known facts on the genus of a surface and on the Heegaard genus of a 3-manifold to manifolds of arbitrary dimension. More precisely, we prove that the genus of non-orientable manifolds is always even and we compare the genus of a manifold with the rank of its fundamental group and with the genus of its boundary.

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