Constructing Simplicial Branched Covers
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Izmestiev and Joswig described how to obtain a simplicial covering space (the partial unfolding) of a given simplicial complex, thus obtaining a simplicial branched cover [Adv. Geom. 3(2):191-255, 2003]. We present a large class of branched covers which can be constructed via the partial unfolding. In particular, for d ≤ 4 every closed oriented PL d-manifold is the partial unfolding of some polytopal d-sphere.
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