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A Structure Theorem for Bad 3-Orbifolds

Geometric Topology 2022-02-02 v1

Abstract

We explicitly construct a collection of bad 3-orbifolds, X\mathcal{X}, satisfying the following properties: \begin{enumerate} \item The underlying topological space of any XXX \in \mathcal{X} is homeomorphic to S2×IS^2\times I or (S2×S1)\B3(S^2\times S^1)\backslash B^3. \item The boundary of any XXX \in \mathcal{X} consists of one or two spherical 2-orbifolds. \item Any bad 3-orbifold is obtained from a good 3-orbifold by repeating, finitely many times, the following operation: remove one or two orbifold-balls, and glue in some XXX \in \mathcal{X}. \end{enumerate} Conversely, any bad 3-orbifold \OO\OO contains some XXX \in \mathcal{X} as a sub-orbifold; we call removing XX and capping the resulting boundary \em cut-and-cap.\em\ Then by cutting-and-capping finitely many times we obtain a good orbifold.

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@article{arxiv.2202.00208,
  title  = {A Structure Theorem for Bad 3-Orbifolds},
  author = {R Lehman and Yo'av Rieck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.00208},
  year   = {2022}
}

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20 pages

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