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The branched cyclic coverings of $2$ bridge knots and links

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Jerome Minkus

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1982; Volume 35, Number 255
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2255-5 (print); 978-1-4704-0662-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0255
MathSciNet review: 643587
MSC: Primary 57M25; Secondary 20F05, 57M05, 57M12

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 0. Synopsis
  • 1. The manifolds $M_n(k,1)$
  • 2. The foldings $C(k,1)$
  • 3. The lens spaces as branched double coverings
  • 4. $C(k,h) = S^3$
  • 5. The manifolds $M_n(k,h)$
  • 6. The fundamental group of $M_n(k,h)$