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Lifting Homeomorphisms and Cyclic Branched Covers of Spheres

Geometric Topology 2020-03-12 v2

Abstract

We characterize the cyclic branched covers of the 2-sphere where every homeomorphism of the sphere lifts to a homeomorphism of the covering surface. This answers a question that appeared in an early version of the erratum of Birman and Hilden [2].

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@article{arxiv.1607.06060,
  title  = {Lifting Homeomorphisms and Cyclic Branched Covers of Spheres},
  author = {Tyrone Ghaswala and Rebecca R. Winarski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.06060},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

5 pages, 1 figure. Minor changes from version 1 to take into account referee's comments