I would like to recreate the following image in tikz, without the d part, where the torus a is up in the middle and the torus b and c are under a to the left and right with the T and S arrows pointing to them.
What i got so far is that (based on Drawing Torus with semi-dashed line on it):
\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz-3dplot}
\begin{document}
\tdplotsetmaincoords{70}{0}
\tikzset{declare function={torusx(\u,\v,\R,\r)=cos(\u)*(\R + \r*cos(\v));
torusy(\u,\v,\R,\r)=(\R + \r*cos(\v))*sin(\u);
torusz(\u,\v,\R,\r)=\r*sin(\v);
vcrit1(\u,\th)=atan(tan(\th)*sin(\u));% first critical v value
vcrit2(\u,\th)=180+atan(tan(\th)*sin(\u));% second critical v value
disc(\th,\R,\r)=((pow(\r,2)-pow(\R,2))*pow(cot(\th),2)+%
pow(\r,2)*(2+pow(tan(\th),2)))/pow(\R,2);% discriminant
umax(\th,\R,\r)=ifthenelse(disc(\th,\R,\r)>0,asin(sqrt(abs(disc(\th,\R,\r)))),0);
}}
\begin{tikzpicture}[tdplot_main_coords]
\pgfmathsetmacro{\R}{4}
\pgfmathsetmacro{\r}{1}
\draw[thick,fill=white,even odd rule,fill opacity=0.2] plot[variable=\x,domain=0:360,smooth,samples=71]
({torusx(\x,vcrit1(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)},
{torusy(\x,vcrit1(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)},
{torusz(\x,vcrit1(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)})
plot[variable=\x,
domain={-180+umax(\tdplotmaintheta,\R,\r)}:{-umax(\tdplotmaintheta,\R,\r)},smooth,samples=51]
({torusx(\x,vcrit2(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)},
{torusy(\x,vcrit2(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)},
{torusz(\x,vcrit2(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)})
plot[variable=\x,
domain={umax(\tdplotmaintheta,\R,\r)}:{180-umax(\tdplotmaintheta,\R,\r)},smooth,samples=51]
({torusx(\x,vcrit2(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)},
{torusy(\x,vcrit2(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)},
{torusz(\x,vcrit2(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)});
\draw[thick] plot[variable=\x,
domain={-180+umax(\tdplotmaintheta,\R,\r)/2}:{-umax(\tdplotmaintheta,\R,\r)/2},smooth,samples=51]
({torusx(\x,vcrit2(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)},
{torusy(\x,vcrit2(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)},
{torusz(\x,vcrit2(\x,\tdplotmaintheta),\R,\r)});
\foreach \X in {200}
{\draw[thick,dashed]
plot[smooth,variable=\x,domain={360+vcrit1(\X,\tdplotmaintheta)}:{vcrit2(\X,\tdplotmaintheta)},samples=71]
({torusx(\X,\x,\R,\r)},{torusy(\X,\x,\R,\r)},{torusz(\X,\x,\R,\r)});
\draw[thick]
plot[smooth,variable=\x,domain={vcrit2(\X,\tdplotmaintheta)}:{vcrit1(\X,\tdplotmaintheta)},samples=71]
({torusx(\X,\x,\R,\r)},{torusy(\X,\x,\R,\r)},{torusz(\X,\x,\R,\r)})
node[below]{$a$};
}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}