Montesinos Amilibia, José María2023-06-202023-06-2020070034-7426https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50763Dedicado a María Teresa Lozano Imízcoz tras 27 años de fructífera colaboraciónThis is a survey article discussing the author's work in a series of several publications on the relationship between 3-manifolds and wild knots in the 3-sphere and strings in R3 given by branched coverings. He includes an introduction to ordinary combinatorial branched coverings and a parallel introduction to the general topological branched coverings defined by R. H. Fox. Among other things one may conclude that every closed, oriented 3-manifold is a 3-fold covering of the 3-sphere branched over a wild knot. The paper ends with a brief discussion of two open problems.engjournal articlehttp://www.scm.org.co/aplicaciones/revista/revistas.php?modulo=Resultados&numero=2&volumen=41&revista=Revistahttp://www.scm.org.co/aplicaciones/revista/revistas.php?modulo=Revistarestricted access514.76knotlinkmanifoldstringwildtamelocally tameCantor settanglebranched coveringcolored knotSmith conjectureGeometría diferencial1204.04 Geometría Diferencial