Title: Branched Covering and Profinite Completion

Abstract: Artin-Mazur established the \'etale homotopy theory of schemes and proved the generalized Riemann existence theorem, i.e., all \'etale morphisms of a complex finite type scheme induce its profinite completion. We generalize it to piecewise linear pseudomanifolds and prove that all branched coverings of a pseudomanifold induce its profinite completion.