We provide new branched covering representations for bounded and/or non-com-pact 4-manifolds, which extend the known ones for closed 4-manifolds. Assuming $M$ to be a connected oriented PL 4-manifold, our main results are the following: (1) if $M$ is compact with (possibly empty) boundary, there exists a simple branched cover $p : M o S^4 - Int(B^4_1 cup dots cup B^4_n)$, where the $B^4_i$'s are disjoint PL 4-balls, $n geq 0$ is the number of boundary components of $M$; (2) if $M$ is open, there exists a simple branched cover $p : M o S^4 - End M$, where $End M$ is the end space of $M$ tamely embedded in $S^4$. In both cases, the degree $d(p)$ and the branching set $B_p$ of $p$ can be assumed to satisfy one of these conditions: (1) $d(p) mkern5mu{=}mkern5mu 4$ and $B_p$ is a properly self-transversally immersed locally flat PL surface; (2) $d(p) mkern5mu{=}mkern5mu 5$ and $B_p$ is a properly embedded locally flat PL surface. In the compact (resp. open) case, by relaxing the assumption on the degree we can have $B^4$ (resp. $R^4$) as the base of the covering. We also define the notion of branched covering between topological manifolds, which extends the usual one in the PL category. In this setting, as an interesting consequence of the above results, we prove that any closed oriented emph{topological} 4-manifold is a 4-fold branched covering of $S^4$. According to almost-smoothability of 4-manifolds, this branched cover could be wild at a single point.

On branched covering representation of 4-manifolds

PIERGALLINI, Riccardo;
2019-01-01

Abstract

We provide new branched covering representations for bounded and/or non-com-pact 4-manifolds, which extend the known ones for closed 4-manifolds. Assuming $M$ to be a connected oriented PL 4-manifold, our main results are the following: (1) if $M$ is compact with (possibly empty) boundary, there exists a simple branched cover $p : M o S^4 - Int(B^4_1 cup dots cup B^4_n)$, where the $B^4_i$'s are disjoint PL 4-balls, $n geq 0$ is the number of boundary components of $M$; (2) if $M$ is open, there exists a simple branched cover $p : M o S^4 - End M$, where $End M$ is the end space of $M$ tamely embedded in $S^4$. In both cases, the degree $d(p)$ and the branching set $B_p$ of $p$ can be assumed to satisfy one of these conditions: (1) $d(p) mkern5mu{=}mkern5mu 4$ and $B_p$ is a properly self-transversally immersed locally flat PL surface; (2) $d(p) mkern5mu{=}mkern5mu 5$ and $B_p$ is a properly embedded locally flat PL surface. In the compact (resp. open) case, by relaxing the assumption on the degree we can have $B^4$ (resp. $R^4$) as the base of the covering. We also define the notion of branched covering between topological manifolds, which extends the usual one in the PL category. In this setting, as an interesting consequence of the above results, we prove that any closed oriented emph{topological} 4-manifold is a 4-fold branched covering of $S^4$. According to almost-smoothability of 4-manifolds, this branched cover could be wild at a single point.
2019
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