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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeNov 13th 2018

    am starting something

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    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2018

    added pointer also to

    • João Guerreiro, Orbifolds and Wallpaper Patterns (pdf)

    which is another review of flat compact 2-dimensional orbifolds as homotopy quotients of the 2-torus by wallpaper groups.

    Does anyone ever discuss this in higher dimensions? Such as flat 4d orbifolds as homotopy quotients of the 4-torus by one of its finite subgroups? I understand that the full classification will tend to get out of control as the dimension increases, but there should still be something to say. But I just can’t find anyone discussing this. If anyone has a pointer, please let me know.

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    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2018
    • (edited Dec 11th 2018)

    There is a MathSE question here in the same direction (and still without reply): Is there for d≥3d \geq 3 an orbifold of the form T d⫽GT^d \sslash G whose homotopy type is that of S dS^d? The MathSE question wants to know this specifically for G=ℤ/2G = \mathbb{Z}/2, but I’d be happy already to know the converse: For which finite group actions GG is this the case?

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    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2018

    Well, they’ve classified all space groups up to dimension 6.

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2018
    • (edited Dec 11th 2018)

    Did you see this MO question? And your question in #3 was taken over to MO here.

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2018

    Thanks! Hadn’t seen these yet. This is useful.

    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2018

    So according to Piergallini 95 every 4-manifold may be realized as a branched cover of the 4-sphere. In particular hence the 4-torus may be realized as a branched cover of the 4-sphere, just not as a “cyclic branched cover” according to Hirsch-Neumann 75.

    I’d like to conclude that the 4-sphere is indeed the homotopy type of a flat 4-dimensional orbifold, just not of a global quotient by a cyclic group. Unfortunately, there is fine print in all the definitions (“manifold”, “branched cover”) which is probably as crucial to the statement as it seems notoriously hard to extract from these references.

    • CommentRowNumber8.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2018
    • (edited Dec 11th 2018)

    And indeed I said this incorrectly:

    That every nn-manifold is a branched cover of S nS^n is already due to Alexander 20. What Piergallini 95 and followups add to this is extra nicety properties of the branching for n=4n = 4. Need to understand these in terms of the corresponding orbifolding…

    • CommentRowNumber9.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeDec 12th 2018

    added pointer to

    • Maximilian Fischer, Michael Ratz, Jesus Torrado, Patrick K.S. Vaudrevange, Classification of symmetric toroidal orbifolds, JHEP 1301 (2013) 084 (arXiv:1209.3906)

    for classification of 6-dimensional toroidal (hence flat) orbifolds

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    • CommentRowNumber10.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeDec 12th 2018

    How does ’symmetric’ qualify ’toroidal orbifold’?

    • CommentRowNumber11.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeDec 12th 2018

    Right, they never say this, do they? Usually, by “the symmetric orbifold” people mean just the quotient by the symmetric group Σ n\Sigma_n of the nn-fold Cartesian product of some orbifold with itself, such as in equations (2.9) to (2.11) in “Higher spins in the symmetric orbifold of K3” (arXiv:1504.00926).

    • CommentRowNumber12.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 1st 2019
    • (edited Jan 1st 2019)

    added pointer to

    • John Ratcliffe, Geometric Orbifolds, chapter 13 in Foundations of Hyperbolic Manifolds, Springer 2006

    and its theorem 13.3.10 for the statement that every (metrically complete and connected) flat orbifold is a global quotient of ℝ n\mathbb{R}^n.

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    • CommentRowNumber13.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2019
    • (edited Feb 26th 2019)

    added the basic example (here) of 𝕋 d⫽ℤ 2\mathbb{T}^d\sslash \mathbb{Z}_2 with action by coordinate reflections

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    • CommentRowNumber14.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 26th 2019

    made more explicit the general construction of compact flat orbifolds from crystallographic groups (here)

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    • CommentRowNumber15.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2020
    • (edited Jul 10th 2020)

    added more references, also, more generally, for G-structures on orbifolds

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    • CommentRowNumber16.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2020

    added pointer to

    • William Dunbar, Geometric orbifolds, Rev. Mat. Univ. Complutense Madr. 1, No.1-3, 67-99 (1988)

    for classification of flat (more generally: locally homogeneous) compact oriented 3-dimensional orbifolds.

    Many of them have coarse underlying topological space the 3-sphere!

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    • CommentRowNumber17.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2020
    • (edited Jul 27th 2020)

    Added the following brief comment on realizing the 4-sphere as the topological space underlying a flat orbifold. (Is there a more canonical citation for the first part of the statement?)

    The complex projective space ℂP 2\mathbb{C}P^2 is an orbifold quotient of the 4-torus (see this MO comment), in generalization of how the Weierstrass elliptic function exhibits the Riemann sphere as 𝕋 2/ℤ 2\mathbb{T}^2/\mathbb{Z}_2.

    A further ℤ 2\mathbb{Z}_2-quotient of ℂP 2\mathbb{C}P^2 gives the 4-sphere (see at 4-sphere as quotient of complex projective plane).

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    • CommentRowNumber18.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2020

    added brief pointer for the 2-sphere being the coarse space underlying a flat orbifold, via the Weierstrass elliptic function

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    • CommentRowNumber19.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 27th 2020

    added pointer to today’s

    and to its precursor

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