Ramified coverings of small categories
arXiv:1303.7046
Abstract
We introduce a ramified covering of small categories, and we show three properties of the notion: the Riemann-Hurwitz formula holds for a ramified covering of finite categories, the zeta function of divides that of for a ramified covering $\map{P}{\widetilde{C}}{C}$ of finite categories, and the classifying space of a -fold ramified covering of small categories is also a -fold ramified covering in the sense of Dold \cite{Dol86}.