Lifting graph automorphisms by voltage assignments (Q1587915)

The authors provide the first systematic combinatorial treatment of the automorphism lifting problem in the context of graphs. They make consistent use of several new fundamental concepts: the action of the fundamental groupoid, the notion of a voltage space, various kinds of invariance of voltage spaces, and the geometry of the lifted actions by means of transversals over a localization set. Some applications of these results to regular maps on surfaces are given.