Equivariant Cobordism of Torus Orbifolds

Torus orbifolds are topological generalizations of symplectic toric orbifolds.The authours give a construction of smooth orbifolds with torus actions whose boundary is a disjoint union of torus orbifolds using a toric topological method. As a result, they show that any orientable locally standard torus orbifold is equivariantly cobordant to some copies of orbifold complex projective spaces. They also discuss some further equivariant cobordism results including the cases when torus orbifolds are actually torus manifolds.     

Convergence of Kähler-Einstein orbifolds

We proved the convergence of a sequence of two-dimensional compact Kähler-Einstein orbifolds with rational quotient singularities and with some uniform bounds on the volumes and on the Euler characteristics of our orbifolds, to a Kähler-Einstein two-dimensional orbifold. Our limit orbifold can have worse singularities than the orbifolds in our sequence. We will also derive some estimates on the norms of the sections of plurianticanonical bundles of our orbifolds in the sequence that we are considering and our limit orbifold.     

Conformal nets associated with lattices and their orbifolds

In this paper, we study representations of conformal nets associated with positive definite even lattices and their orbifolds with respect to isometries of the lattices. Using previous general results on orbifolds, we give a list of all irreducible representations of the orbifolds, which generate a unitary modular tensor category.     

The Chen-Ruan cohomology of almost contact orbifolds

Comparing to the Ch-~Ruan cohomology theory for the almost complex orbifolds, we study the orbifold cohomology theory for almost contact orbifolds. We define the Chen-Ruan cohomology group of any almost contact orbifold. Using the methods for almost complex orbifolds, we define the obstruction bundle for any 3-multisector of the almost contact orbifolds and the Chen~Ruan cup product for the Che-Ruan cohomology. We also prove that under this cup product the direct sum of all dimensional orbifold cohomology groups constitutes a cohomological ring. Finally we calculate two examples.     

Crystallographic groups of Sol

We classify all the closed 3‐dimensional orbifolds with Sol‐geometry. These are aspherical orbifolds and so their fundamental groups determine the orbifolds completely. Thus we will classify all the crystallographic groups of Sol, together with all the Bieberbach groups, up to isomorphism.     

On Yau’s theorem for effective orbifolds

In 1978 Yau (Yau, 1978) confirmed a conjecture due to Calabi (1954) stating the existence of Kähler metrics with prescribed Ricci forms on compact Kähler manifolds. A version of this statement for effective orbifolds can be found in the literature (Joyce, 2000; Boyer and Galicki, 2008; Demailly and Kollár, 2001). In this expository article, we provide details for a proof of this orbifold version of the statement by adapting Yau’s original continuity method to the setting of effective orbifolds in order to solve a Monge–Ampère equation. We then outline how to obtain Kähler–Einstein metrics on orbifolds with negative first Chern class by solving a slightly different Monge–Ampère equation. We conclude by listing some explicit examples of Calabi–Yau orbifolds, which consequently admit Ricci flat metrics by Yau’s theorem for effective orbifolds.     

One cannot hear orbifold isotropy type

We show that the isotropy types of the singularities of Riemannian orbifolds are not determined by the Laplace spectrum. Indeed, we construct arbitrarily large families of mutually isospectral orbifolds with different isotropy types. Finally, we show that the corresponding singular strata of two isospectral orbifolds may not be homeomorphic. Received: 6 October 2005     

Hamiltonian torus actions on symplectic orbifolds and toric varieties

In the first part of the paper, we build a foundation for further work on Hamiltonian actions on symplectic orbifolds. Most importantly, we prove the orbifold versions of the abelian connectedness and convexity theorems. In the second half, we prove that compact symplectic orbifolds with completely integrable torus actions are classified by convex simple rational polytopes with a positive integer attached to each open facet and that all such orbifolds are algebraic toric varieties.

     

Isospectral orbifolds with different maximal isotropy orders

We construct pairs of compact Riemannian orbifolds which are isospectral for the Laplace operator on functions such that the maximal isotropy order of singular points in one of the orbifolds is higher than in the other. In one type of examples, isospectrality arises from a version of the famous Sunada theorem which also implies isospectrality on p-forms; here the orbifolds are quotients of certain compact normal homogeneous spaces. In another type of examples, the orbifolds are quotients of Euclidean and are shown to be isospectral on functions using dimension formulas for the eigenspaces developed in [12]. In the latter type of examples the orbifolds are not isospectral on 1-forms. Along the way we also give several additional examples of isospectral orbifolds which do not have maximal isotropy groups of different size but other interesting properties. All three authors were partially supported by DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 647.     

Existence of orbifolds IV: Examples

This work concludes a series of four papers on the foundational theory of orbifolds and stacks. We offer apply the abstract theory, developed in its predecessors, to orbifolds derived from manifolds.     

Spectral Bounds on Orbifold Isotropy

We first show that a Laplace isospectral family of Riemannian orbifolds, satisfying a lower Ricci curvature bound, contains orbifolds with points of only finitely many isotropy types. If we restrict our attention to orbifolds with only isolated singularities, and assume a lower sectional curvature bound, then the number of singular points in an orbifold in such an isospectral family is universally bounded above. These proofs employ spectral theory methods of Brooks, Perry and Petersen, as well as comparison geometry techniques developed by Grove and Petersen.This research was partially supported by NSF grant DMS 0072534.     

A Brody theorem for orbifolds

We study the Kobayashi pseudodistance for orbifolds, proving an orbifold version of Brody’s theorem and classifying which one-dimensional orbifolds are hyperbolic.     

Deformations of complex orbifolds and the period maps

We consider the deformations of complex orbifolds with the underlying smooth structures being fixed.As a corollary,we can prove that the deformations of a Calabi-Yau orbifold is unobstructed by using standard arguments.Then we consider the period map for a family of complex Kahler orbifolds.We prove that the period map is holomorphic,horizontal and consistent with our Kodaira-Spencer map.     

F-structure on collapsed orbifolds

In this paper, we prove the existence of nilpotent Killing structures and F-structures on collapsed Riemannian orbifolds. Therefore a sufficiently collapsed orbifold X is the union of orbits, each orbit is an infranil orbifold of positive dimension; in particular, the F-structure provides a decomposition of X into compact flat orbifolds.     

An algebraic index theorem for orbifolds

Using the concept of a twisted trace density on a cyclic groupoid, a trace is constructed on a formal deformation quantization of a symplectic orbifold. An algebraic index theorem for orbifolds follows as a consequence of a local Riemann-Roch theorem for such densities. In the case of a reduced orbifold, this proves a conjecture by Fedosov, Schulze, and Tarkhanov. Finally, it is shown how the Kawasaki index theorem for elliptic operators on orbifolds follows from this algebraic index theorem.     

Criteria for virtual fibering

We prove that an irreducible 3-manifold with fundamental groupthat satisfies a certain group-theoretic property called RFRSis virtually fibered. As a corollary, we show that 3-dimensionalreflection orbifolds and arithmetic hyperbolic orbifolds definedby a quadratic form virtually fiber. These include the SeifertWeber dodecahedral space and the Bianchi groups. Moreover, weshow that a taut-sutured compression body has a finite-sheetedcover with a depth one taut-oriented foliation. Received July 29, 2007.     

Orbifold homeomorphism finiteness based on geometric constraints

We show that any collection of n-dimensional orbifolds with sectional curvature and volume uniformly bounded below, diameter bounded above, and with only isolated singular points contains orbifolds of only finitely many orbifold homeomorphism types. This is a generalization to the orbifold category of a similar result for manifolds proven by Grove, Petersen, and Wu. It follows that any Laplace isospectral collection of orbifolds with sectional curvature uniformly bounded below and having only isolated singular points also contains only finitely many orbifold homeomorphism types. The main steps of the argument are to show that any sequence from the collection has subsequence that converges to an orbifold, and then to show that the homeomorphism between the underlying spaces of the limit orbifold and an orbifold from the subsequence that is guaranteed by Perelman’s stability theorem must preserve orbifold structure.     

Orbifolds as stratified diffeologies

We discuss general properties of stratified spaces in diffeology. This leads to a formal framework for the theory of stratifications. In particular, we consider the Klein stratification of diffeological orbifolds, defined by the action of local diffeomorphisms. We show that it is a standard stratification in the sense that the partition of the space into orbits of local diffeomorphisms is locally finite (for orbifolds with locally finite atlases), it satisfies the frontier condition and the orbits are locally closed manifolds.