Rudolph diagrams and an analytic realization of the Vitushkin covering

An example of a three-sheeted covering over the ball in ² is constructed. The covering is the union of a four-dimensional ball with an analytic disk. The projection of the ball is a local homeomorphism ramified along the disk, whose projection is a part of an algebraic curve.Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 206–224, August, 1996.This research was partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under grant No. 93-011-225.