Classifying closed 2-orbifolds with Euler characteristics
Abstract
We determine the extent to which the collection of -Euler-Satake characteristics classify closed 2-orbifolds. In particular, we show that the closed, connected, effective, orientable 2-orbifolds are classified by the collection of -Euler-Satake characteristics corresponding to free or free abelian and are not classified by those corresponding to any finite collection of finitely generated discrete groups. Similarly, we show that such a classification is not possible for non-orientable 2-orbifolds and any collection of , nor for noneffective 2-orbifolds. As a corollary, we generate families of orbifolds with the same -Euler-Satake characteristics in arbitrary dimensions for any finite collection of ; this is used to demonstrate that the -Euler-Satake characteristics each constitute new invariants of orbifolds.
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@article{arxiv.0902.2220,
title = {Classifying closed 2-orbifolds with Euler characteristics},
author = {Whitney DuVal and John Schulte and Christopher Seaton and Bradford Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.2220},
year = {2011}
}
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17 pages