Braids and branched coverings of dimension three
  We study simple branched coverings of degree d of the 2- and 3- dimensional sphere branched over oriented links. We demonstrate how to use braid charts to develop embeddings of these into $S^k \times D^2$ for $k=2,3 when $d=2,3$. This is an initial part of our study and represents the manuscript submitted to the RIMS workshop at Intelligence of Low Dimensional Topology. 
J. Scott Carter (Univ. of South Alabama), Seiichi Kamada (Hiroshima   Univ.)
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