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Moduli spaces of flat Riemannian metrics on orbifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-07-23 v1 Group Theory Geometric Topology

Abstract

We study moduli spaces of flat metrics on closed Riemannian orbifolds admitting such metrics. We show that for such orbifolds O\mathcal{O}, the Teichm\"uller space of flat metrics Tflat(O)\mathcal{T}_{\text{flat}}(\mathcal{O}) serves as a classifying space for proper actions of the mapping class group, MCG(O)\operatorname{MCG}(\mathcal{O}), in the appropriate category. We show that the moduli space of flat metrics, Mflat(O)=Tflat(O)/MCG(O)\mathcal{M}_{\text{flat}}(\mathcal{O}) = \mathcal{T}_{\text{flat}}(\mathcal{O}) / \operatorname{MCG}(\mathcal{O}), is itself a very good orbifold, and, under a technical assumption, describe this orbifold algebraically up to commensurability.

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@article{arxiv.2507.16017,
  title  = {Moduli spaces of flat Riemannian metrics on orbifolds},
  author = {Karla García and Ingrid Amaranta Membrillo Solis and Motiejus Valiunas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.16017},
  year   = {2025}
}

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