CONVEX DECOMPOSITIONS OF REAL PROJECTIVE SURFACES. III : FOR CLOSED OR NONORIENTABLE SURFACES

The purpose of our research is to understand geometric and topological aspects of real projective structures on surfaces. A real projective surface is a differentiable surface with an atlas of charts to $RP^2$ such that transition functions are restrictions of projective automorphisms of $RP^2$. Since such an atlas lifts projective geometry on $RP^2$ to the surface locally and consistently, one can study the global projective geometry of surfaces.