TY - JOUR AU - Montesinos Amilibia, José María AU - Hilden, Hugh Michael AU - Lozano Imízcoz, María Teresa PY - 1983 DO - 10.2307/1999564 SN - 1088-6850 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/64702 T2 - Transactions of the American Mathematical Society AB - This paper establishes two new ways of representing all closed orientable 3-manifolds. (1) Let F,N be a pair of disjoint bounded orientable surfaces in the 3-sphere S3. Let (Sk,Fk,Nk), k=1,2,3, be 3 copies of the triplet (S,F,N). Split S1 along F1; S2... LA - eng M2 - 729 PB - American Mathematical Society KW - closed orientable 3-manifold KW - branched covering KW - link KW - knot TI - All three-manifolds are pullbacks of a branched covering S3 to S3 TY - journal article VL - 279 ER -