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Proposition 2 ([Topological comparison]). In the contour coupling, the projections π_m may be chosen so that the following conclusions hold on the sphere and on every buffered compact part of the plane. Each conclusion is eventual for each …
Proposition 2 ([Topological comparison]). In the contour coupling, the projections πm may be chosen so that the following conclusions hold on the sphere and on every buffered compact part of the plane. Each conclusion is eventual for each fixed choice of margins. If the projections of two primal vertices approach each other, they can be joined by primal paths with arbitrarily small projected diameter. This is uniform over all lifts in a fixed compact region. The same statement holds on the dual graph and for surface paths. In particular fixed tubes with clearance contain paths following them on either graph. All lifts of a sufficiently small closed disk or other compact well can be included in a connected set over any fixed open enlargement. A loop projecting into a small disk can be filled over a slightly larger disk, provided that both have the prescribed clearance. The projection has degree +1 or -1 in a compact spherical completion. Robustly transverse primal and dual tube crossings intersect at an edge and its dual. Projected circuits with nonzero winding difference about two separated wells separate all the corresponding lifted fibers. Integer winding differences about two wells agree upstairs and downstairs up to the common degree sign, when loops and wells have fixed separation. These statements retain repeated edge and face incidences.