Actions of tori on orbifolds (Q809420)

The authors study smooth effective actions of a torus \(T^ n\) of dimension n on an orbifold of dimension m. The basic technique is taken from torus actions on manifolds. First one studies invariant tubular neighborhoods of orbits by passing to their universal cover. They are described by three invariants: a subgroup \(\Gamma_ 0\) of the lattice \(\Gamma ={\mathbb{Z}}^ n\) in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\); a central extension \(1\to \Gamma /\Gamma_ 0\to \Lambda \to D\to 1\), where D is a finite group; a faithful representation \(\rho\) (the slice representation) of K into the group of isometries O(B), where K is the maximal compact subgroup of a Lie group G constructed from (2), and B is a Euclidean ball of dimension \(m-n+\dim K\).