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Main Authors: Carter, J. Scott, Choi, Seonmi, Kim, Byeorhi
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11952
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author Carter, J. Scott
Choi, Seonmi
Kim, Byeorhi
author_facet Carter, J. Scott
Choi, Seonmi
Kim, Byeorhi
contents A folding of a branched cover of the 3-sphere that is branched over a knot is a continuous map of the cover into the product of the sphere with a disk that has the property that the projection onto the sphere factor induces the covering. Moreover, away from the branch set, the map is a general position immersion. Cyclic branched covers can be folded so that the map is an embedding when the disk factor is 2-dimensional. Dihedral branched covers can also be folded. In as much as possible, the foldings that are presented are quite detailed. In particular, the paper focuses upon a folding of the dihedral cover of the 3-sphere that is branched along a torus knot of type (2,5). The cover also is homeomorphic to the $3$-sphere.
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spellingShingle Folding Branched Covers of the $3$-Sphere Branched over Knots
Carter, J. Scott
Choi, Seonmi
Kim, Byeorhi
Geometric Topology
57K10, 57M12
A folding of a branched cover of the 3-sphere that is branched over a knot is a continuous map of the cover into the product of the sphere with a disk that has the property that the projection onto the sphere factor induces the covering. Moreover, away from the branch set, the map is a general position immersion. Cyclic branched covers can be folded so that the map is an embedding when the disk factor is 2-dimensional. Dihedral branched covers can also be folded. In as much as possible, the foldings that are presented are quite detailed. In particular, the paper focuses upon a folding of the dihedral cover of the 3-sphere that is branched along a torus knot of type (2,5). The cover also is homeomorphic to the $3$-sphere.
title Folding Branched Covers of the $3$-Sphere Branched over Knots
topic Geometric Topology
57K10, 57M12
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11952