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Three-manifolds as branched covers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. B. R. Lickorish
W. B. R. Lickorish
Affiliation:
Pembroke College, Cambridge
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Abstract

This note describes a new, and possibly more informative, proof of the fact that any closed orientable 3-manifold is a branched cover over the 3-sphere.

Type
Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 74 , Issue 3 , November 1973 , pp. 449 - 451
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1973

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