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A note on 3-fold branched coverings of S3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

José María Montesinos
Affiliation:
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Extract

H. Hilden(3, 4) and the author(9,10) proved independently the following result:

Theorem 1. Each closed, orientable 3-manifold is a 3-fold, dihedral covering of S3, branched over a knot.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1980

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