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Knots in Washington XXXV
December 7-9, 2012
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UT Dallas), Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (U.Penn), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Branched coverings and braided manifolds of low dimensions
by
Seiichi Kamada
Hiroshima University
Coauthors: J. Scott Carter

We introduce the notion of a braided manifold, discuss how it relates with branched coverings and how we describe it. Especially, for the 2-dimensional case, we have a method of describing branched coverings of the 2-sphere by using graphics, called a permutation chart. It is an unoriented version of a chart description of 2-dimensional braids. We can generalize this to 3-dimensional case, and even more higher. This is an on-going project with J. Scott Carter.

Date received: October 24, 2012

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