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On signatures associated with ramified coverings and embedding problems

J. Wood, Emery Thomas (1973)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

Given a cohomology class ξ H 2 ( M ; Z ) there is a smooth submanifold K M Poincaré dual to ξ . A special class of such embeddings is characterized by topological properties which hold for nonsingular algebraic hypersurfaces in C P n . This note summarizes some results on the question: how does the divisibility of ξ restrict the dual submanifolds K in this class ? A formula for signatures associated with a d -fold ramified cover of M branched along K is given and a proof is included in case d = 2 .

On some spaces which are covered by a product space

Izu Vaisman (1977)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

In this note, a topological version of the results obtained, in connection with the de Rham reducibility theorem (Comment. Math. Helv., 26 ( 1952), 328–344), by S. Kashiwabara (Tôhoku Math. J., 8 (1956), 13–28), (Tôhoku Math. J., 11 (1959), 327–350) and Ia. L. Sapiro (Izv. Bysh. Uceb. Zaved. Mat. no6, (1972), 78–85, Russian), (Izv. Bysh. Uceb. Zaved. Mat. no4, (1974), 104–113, Russian) is given. Thus a characterization of a class of topological spaces covered by a product space is obtained and the...

On the existence of universal covering spaces for metric spaces and subsets of the Euclidean plane

G. R. Conner, J. W. Lamoreaux (2005)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We prove several results concerning the existence of universal covering spaces for separable metric spaces. To begin, we define several homotopy-theoretic conditions which we then prove are equivalent to the existence of a universal covering space. We use these equivalences to prove that every connected, locally path connected separable metric space whose fundamental group is a free group admits a universal covering space. As an application of these results, we prove the main result of this article,...

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