TY - JOUR AU - Montesinos Amilibia, José María PY - 1978 DO - 10.2307/1998880 SN - 0002-9947 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/64711 T2 - Transactions of the American Mathematical Society AB - It is shown that a PL, orientable 4-manifold with no 3- or 4-handles is a 3-fold irregular cover of the 4-ball, branched over a ribbon 2-manifold. The author also studies 2-fold branched cyclic covers and finds examples of surfaces in S4 whose 2-fold... LA - eng M2 - 453 PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Covering spaces KW - Topological manifolds. TI - 4-manifolds, 3-fold covering spaces and ribbons. TY - journal article VL - 245 ER -