Branched coverings of simply connected $4$-manifolds

Valentina Bais, Riccardo Piergallini, Daniele Zuddas

We show that, given $d\ge 4$ and two closed connected oriented PL $4$-manifolds $M$ and $N$ such that $N$ has a handle decomposition with no $1$- and $3$-handles, there exists a…