Montesinos Amilibia, José María and Hilden, Hugh Michael and Lozano Imízcoz, María Teresa (1983) Universal knots. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 8 (3). pp. 449-450. ISSN 0273-0979
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Abstract
In an unpublished preprint W. Thurston showed the existence of a six component link in the 3-sphere such that every three-manifold can be expressed as a branched cover of the 3-sphere branched over this link. He called links with this property "universal links'' and asked if a universal knot exists. The authors confirm this by showing that any link can be embedded in the branch locus of a 3-sphere branched covering of a 3-sphere branched over a knot
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 3-manifolds as branched covering spaces over 3-sphere; universal knot |
| Subjects: | Sciences > Mathematics > Topology |
| ID Code: | 17189 |
| References: | W. Thurston, Universal links (preprint). |
| Deposited On: | 23 Nov 2012 12:57 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2012 12:57 |
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