Good, but not very good orbifolds

2024/04/22 by Christian Lange, Lange, Christian
Mathematics · #57R18 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.14234

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Abstract

We construct examples of (effective) closed orbifolds which are covered by manifolds, but not finitely so.

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