The deformation spaces of projective structures on 3-dimensional Coxeter orbifolds (Q2498426): Difference between revisions

This paper studies the deformation space of projective structures on certain orbifolds. The main result states that, for a normal-type Coxeter orbifold (obtained from a convex polyhedron \(P\)), the restricted deformation space of projective structures on the orbifold (if non-empty) is a smooth manifold of dimension \(3f-e-e_2-k(P)\), where \(f\) is the number of faces of the polyhedron \(P\), \(e\) is the number of edges, \(e_2\) is the number of edges of order \(2\) and \(k(P)\) is the dimension of the group of projective automorphisms acting on \(P\). A result is also obtained showing when the deformation space is, in fact, empty.