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Knots in Washington XLVI: 70th Birthday of Oleg Viro;
May 4-6, 2018
George Washington University,
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU)

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Colored Tri-Plane Diagrams and Branched Covers of the Four-Sphere
by
Patricia Cahn
Smith College
Coauthors: Ryan Blair and Alexandra Kjuchukova

Which four-manifolds arise as 3-fold covers of the four-sphere, branched over surfaces with singularities? We study this question using trisections of four-manifolds and colored tri-plane diagrams, and construct large families of such covers.

Date received: April 19, 2018

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