%0 Journal Article
%T A universal ribbon surface in B^4
%A Riccardo Piergallini
%A Daniele Zuddas
%J Mathematics
%D 2003
%I arXiv
%R 10.1112/S0024611504015072
%X We construct an orientable ribbon surface F in B^4, which is universal in the following sense: any compact orientable pl 4-manifold having a handle decomposition with 0-, 1- and 2-handles can be represented as a cover of B^4 branched over F.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0308222v1