On extension of coverings

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDQ068MaRDI QIDQ3066429zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Rivin, Manfred Droste

Publication date 10 January 2011

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3594

zbMATH Keywords

covering spacesbranched coverings.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) General theory for infinite permutation groups (20B07)

Abstract: We address the question of when a covering of the boundary of a surface can be extended to a covering of the surface (equivalently: when is there a branched cover with a prescribed monodromy). If such an extension is possible, when can the total space be taken to be connected? When can the extension be taken to be regular? We give necessary and sufficient conditions for both finite and infinite covers (infinite covers are our main focus). In order to prove our results, we show group-theoretic results of independent interests, such as the following extension (and simplification) of the theorem of Ore}: every element of the infinite symmetric group is the commutator of two elements which, together, act transitively

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