A universal ribbon surface in B^4

Daniele Zuddas; Riccardo Piergallini

arxiv: math/0308222 · v1 · pith:7KBDWHPUnew · submitted 2003-08-24 · 🧮 math.GT

A universal ribbon surface in B⁴

Riccardo Piergallini , Daniele Zuddas This is my paper

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keywords orientableribbonsurfaceuniversalbranchedcompactconstructcover

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We construct an orientable ribbon surface F in B^4, which is universal in the following sense: any compact orientable pl 4-manifold having a handle decomposition with 0-, 1- and 2-handles can be represented as a cover of B^4 branched over F.

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A universal ribbon surface in B⁴

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