orbifold
Roughly, an orbifold is the quotient of a manifold by a finite group
. For example, take a sheet of paper and add a small crease perpendicular to one side at the halfway point. Then, line up the two halves of the side. This may be thought of as the plane modulo the group . Now, let us give the definition.
Define a category :The objects are pairs , where is a finite group actingeffectively on a connected smooth manifold . A morphism betweentwo objects and is a family of openembeddings which satisfy
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for each embedding , there is an injective homomorphism
such that is equivariant
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For , we have
and if , then .
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}, for any
Now, we define orbifolds. Given a paracompact Hausdorff space and anice open covering which forms a basis for the topology on, an orbifold structure on consists of
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For , is a ramified cover whichidentifies
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For , there exists a morphism covering theinclusion
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If ,
References:
[1] Kawasaki T., The Signature theorem
for V-manifolds. Topology 17 (1978), 75-83. MR0474432(57:14072)