Abstract
We prove that while there are maps of arbitrarily large degree, there is no branched cover from the –torus to . More generally, we obtain that, as long as a closed manifold satisfies a suitable cohomological condition, any –surjective branched cover is a homeomorphism.
Citation
Pekka Pankka. Juan Souto. "On the nonexistence of certain branched covers." Geom. Topol. 16 (3) 1321 - 1344, 2012. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2012.16.1321
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