Branched coverings. II
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Abstract:
This paper improves the analysis of the possible cobordism classes $[M] - (\deg \;\phi )[N]$ for $\phi : M \to N$ a smooth branched covering of closed oriented smooth manifolds. It is assumed that the branch set is a codimension $2$ submanifold.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1983 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 276 (1983), 403-407
- MSC: Primary 57M12; Secondary 57N70
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1983-0684517-5
- MathSciNet review: 684517