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Greg Kuperberg
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Ramified covers of 3-torus

It is known that every orientable 3-manfiold can be obtained as a ramified cover of S3 with a ramification (of some order) at a link in S3. I am curious if there is a reasonable characterization of 3-manifolds that cover 3-torus?

Added. Notice that such a manifold is enlargeble, so it does not admit a metric of positive scalar curvature, so for example a connected sum of n copies of S2 x S1 does not admit a ramified cover of T3 (as far as I understand).

Dmitri Panov
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