2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/62947We show that every p-fold strictly-cyclic branched covering of a b-bridge link in the 3-sphere admits a p-symmetric Heegaard splitting of genus g=(b-1)(p-1). This gives a complete converse to a result of Birman and Hilden, and gives an intrinsic characterization of p-symmetric Heegaard splittings as p-fold strictly-cyclic branched coverings of links.7 pages, 2 figures. This contribution is extracted from M. Mulazzani, On $p$-symmetric Heegaard splittings, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 9 (2000), no. 8, 1059--1067. Reprinted with permission from World Scientific Publishing CoGeometric Topology57M12; 57R65text