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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2000. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-63). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.Sc.) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland. / Typescript. Bibliography : leaves 55-56. Also available online.

Thesis (doctoral)--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-98).

In this paper, the study of k-fold branched coverings for which the branch set is a stratified set is considered. First of all, the existence of universal k-fold branched coverings over CW-complexes with stratified branch set is proved using Brown's Representability Theorem. Next, an explicit construction of universal k-fold branched coverings over manifolds is given. Finally, some homotopy and homology groups are computed for some specific examples of Universal k-fold branched coverings.

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L'obtention de ce mémoire a été rendue possible par le soutien financier du FRQNT et du CRSNG. / Ce mémoire est une étude détaillée de certains aspects de la théorie de Morse et des complexes de chaînes qui en découlent : le complexe de Morse, le complexe de Milnor et le complexe de Barraud-Cornea. À l’aide de différentes techniques de la topologie différentielle et de la théorie de Morse, dont les bases forment les premiers chapitres de ce texte, nous ferons la construction détaillée de ces trois complexes avant de démontrer leurs équivalences deux à deux. Ce mémoire synthétise et met en parallèle trois branches de la théorie de Morse en ne supposant que des connaissances du niveau d’un étudiant de début maîtrise. / In this thesis, we study aspects of Morse theory and the chain complexes that derive from it : the Morse complex, the Milnor complex and the Barraud-Cornea complex. Using different techniques from differential topology and Morse theory, which will be presented in the first chapters, we carefully build these complexes before proving their equivalence. This thesis synthesises and compares three points of view in Morse theory in a document accessible to beginning graduate students.

Orientador: Ermínia de Lourdes Campello Fanti / Banca: Tomas Edson Barros / Banca: Maria Gorete Carreira Andrade / Resumo: O objetivo principal deste trabalho é mostrar a existência dos complexos de Eilenberg-MacLane, ou K(G, n)-espaços (como são comumente chamados), para G um grupo arbitrþario se n = 1, e G abeliano, se n = 2. Esses espaicos desempenham um papel muito importante na Topologia Algébrica, principalmente na conexão entre homotopia e (co)homologia / Abstract: The main purpose of this work is to show the existence of the Eilenberg- Maclaneþs complexes, or K(G, n)-spaces (as they are usually called), for an arbitrary group G if n = 1, and G abelian, if n = 2. Such spaces play a very important role in Algebraic Topology, mainly in the connection between homotopy and (co)homology. / Mestre