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In "Rips complexes and covers in the uniform category" \cite{Rips} the authors define, following James \cite{J}, covering maps of uniform spaces and introduce the concept of generalized uniform covering maps. Conditions for the existence of universal uniform covering maps and generalized uniform covering maps are given…

Han discusses variants of digital covering maps and their equivalences.

Study of lifting maps in branched covers of 3-manifolds, showing non-injectivity.

The paper studies harmonic maps between surfaces homotopic to a covering map, proving uniqueness and injectivity of Hopf differential.

The paper studies liftable mapping class groups of cyclic covers of spheres.

This paper shows semi-equivelar toroidal maps are vertex-transitive covers.

We define Peano covering maps and prove basic properties analogous to classical covers. Their domain is always locally path-connected but the range may be an arbitrary topological space. One of characterizations of Peano covering maps is via the uniqueness of homotopy lifting property for all locally path-connected spa…

The Birman-Hilden theory is extended to infinite type surfaces and branched covers.

Taut foliations map leaves to branched 2-sphere covers.

In this paper we develop analysis of the monopole maps over the universal covering space of a compact four manifold. We induce a property on local properness of the covering monopole map under the condition of closeness of the AHS complex. In particular we construct a higher degree of the covering monopole map when the…

Study Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps on manifolds, focusing on covering and total spaces.

The paper details folding of branched covers of the 3-sphere over knots.

New braid group representations into mapping class groups are derived from disk coverings.

Solve arc diagrams on surfaces via branched covers.

We say that a cover of surfaces S -> X has the Birman--Hilden property if the subgroup of the mapping class group of X consisting of mapping classes that have representatives that lift to S embeds in the mapping class group of S modulo the group of deck transformations. We identify one necessary condition and one suffi…

Harmonic maps from surfaces to CAT(k) spheres are branched coverings.

Overlays were introduced by R. H. Fox [6] as a subclass of covering maps. We offer a different view of overlays: it resembles the definition of paracompact spaces via star refinements of open covers. One introduces covering structures for covering maps and $p:X\to Y$ is an overlay if it has a covering structure that ha…

Flat connections induced over covering maps are studied and the trivial ones among them are described. In the sequel, we deal with the resulting holonomy bundles.

The study proves unique path lifting properties and their implications on quotient spaces and covering maps.

The study explores how the mapping class group acts on the homology of surface covers.

Let S be an orientable surface with negative Euler characteristic, let ψ\in\Mod(S) be a mapping class of S, and let T_ψ be the mapping torus of ψ. We study the action of lifts of ψon the homology of finite covers of S via the torsion homology growth of towers of finite covers of T_ψ. We show that ψadmits a lift to a fi…

In this note, we show that, if a pseudo-Anosov map $φ:S\to S$ admits a finite cover whose action on the first homology has spectral radius greater than $1$, then the monodromy of any fibered structure of any finite cover of the mapping torus $M_φ$ has the same property.

Open manifolds can be covered by $\mathbb{R}^m$ with finite or infinite degree.

Berestovskii and Plaut introduced the concept of a coverable uniform space when developing their theory of generalized universal covering maps for uniform spaces. Brodskiy, Dydak, LaBuz, and Mitra introduced the concept of a locally uniformly joinable uniform space when developing their theory of generalized uniform co…

Nonorientable surface mapping class group embeds quasi-isometrically in its orientable cover.

Study homology groups of mapping and Torelli groups for surfaces with abelian covers.

In this article we determine, for an infinite family of maps on the plane, the topology of the surface on which the minimal regular covering occurs. This infinite family includes all Archimedean maps.

Notes on harmonic maps between manifolds, existence and regularity covered.

Proves manifolds with positive scalar curvature have inessential covers.

The paper formalizes robot environments using topological concepts.

In this paper we show that for m>n the set of cobordism classes of maps from m-sphere to n-sphere is trivial. The determination of the cobordism homotopy groups of spheres admits applications to the covers for spheres.

By a construction of Berstein and Edmonds every proper branched cover f between manifolds is a factor of a branched covering orbit map from a locally connected and locally compact Hausdorff space called the monodromy space of f to the target manifold. For proper branched covers between 2-manifolds the monodromy space i…

Given a sub-hyperbolic semi-rational branched covering which is not CLH-equivalent a rational map, it must have the non-empty canonical Thurston obstruction. By using this canonical Thurston obstruction, we decompose this dynamical system in this paper into several sub-dynamical systems. Each of these sub-dynamical sys…

This paper extends braid lifting to coloured braid groupoids for all simple disc covers.

Semi-Equivelar maps are generalizations of Archimedean Solids (as are equivelar maps of the Platonic solids) to the surfaces other than $2-$Sphere. We classify some semi equivelar maps on surface of Euler characteristic -1 and show that none of these are vertex transitive. We establish existence of 12-covered triangula…

Let $Σ$ be a surface whose interior admits a hyperbolic structure of finite volume. In this paper, we show that any infinite order mapping class acts with infinite order on the homology of some universal $k$--step nilpotent cover of $Σ$. We show that a Torelli mapping class either acts with infinite order on the homolo…

Develops algorithm for finite generating set of liftable mapping class groups of regular abelian covers.

We show that Brieskorn manifolds with their standard contact structures are contact branched coverings of spheres. This covering maps a contact open book decomposition of the Brieskorn manifold onto a Milnor open book of the sphere.

3-manifolds can be virtually dominated by maps of degree 8.

A closed 4-manifold (or, more generally, a finite $PD_4$-space) has a finitely dominated infinite regular covering space if and only if either its universal covering space is finitely dominated or it is finitely covered by the mapping torus of a self homotopy equivalence of a $PD_3$-complex.

Finite presentations for mapping class groups of surfaces and surfaces with points/boundaries.

The paper studies global invertibility of maps on Finsler manifolds.

The study connects lamination and orbit closures in hyperbolic manifolds.

The image of the branch set of a PL branched cover between PL $n$-manifolds is a simplicial $(n-2)$-complex. We demonstrate that the reverse implication also holds: an open and discrete map $f \colon \mathbb{S}^n \to \mathbb{S}^n$ with the image of the branch set contained in a simplicial $(n-2)$-complex is equivalent …

We study the connections among the mapping class group of the twice punctured torus, the cyclic branched coverings of (1,1)-knots and the cyclic presentations of groups. We give the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the n-fold strongly-cyclic branched coverings of (1,1)-knots, thro…

Surfaces of finite geometric type are complete, immersed into the tree-dimensional Euclidean space with finite total curvature and Gauss map extending to an oriented compact surface as a smooth branched covering map over the unit sphere of the Euclidean three dimensional space. In a recent preprint J. Jorge and F. Merc…

New proofs and refined theorems on bounded cohomology.

Study mapping class group action on cohomology of SL_n character variety.