Universal realisators for homology classes (Q351714)

A closed oriented manifold \(M^n\) of dimension \(n\) is said to have the \textit{universal realization of cycles property} (URC) if for each topological space \(X\) and each homology class \(z \in H_n(X, \mathbb Z)\), there exists a finite sheeted covering \(\widehat{M}^n \to M\) and a continuous map \(f:\widehat{M}^n \to X\), so that \(f_*[\widehat{M}^n] = kz\) for some integer~\(k\). One also says that \(M^n\) is a URC manifold. In this paper the author reinterprets and clarifies the proof of an earlier result of his: {Theorem. } There are URC manifolds in all dimensions. Various authors have worked on finding URC manifolds, often with additional properties. As a corollary to one specific construction, the author shows: {Corollary. } There are hyperbolic URC manifolds in dimensions \(2\), \(3\), and~\(4\). The author discusses the relation of the URC property to dominance (\(M^n \geq N^n\) if there is a map \(f:M \to N\) of non--zero degree).