Geodesic
Branched coverings of manifolds with boundary and link invariants. I
Izvestiya. Mathematics, Tome 7 (1973) no. 6, pp. 1239-1256 
O. Ya. Viro. Branched coverings of manifolds with boundary and link invariants. I. Izvestiya. Mathematics, Tome 7 (1973) no. 6, pp. 1239-1256. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/IM2_1973_7_6_a2/
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In this paper relationships are found between invariants of a knot $K\subset S^{2k-1}$ of codimension 2 and invariants of cyclic branched coverings of the ball $D^{2k}$ branched over orientable compact submanifolds spanning $K$; analogous relationships are studied in a more general situation.

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