Characteristic classes of bad orbifold vector bundles

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2007.08.001MaRDI QIDQ2469967zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher Seaton

Publication date 11 February 2008

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606665

zbMATH Keywords

bad orbifold vector bundlecharacteristic classEuler classorbifoldvector bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12)

Abstract: We show that every bad orbifold vector bundle can be realized as the restriction of a good orbifold vector bundle to a suborbifold of the base space. We give an explicit construction of this result in which the Chen-Ruan orbifold cohomology of the two base spaces are isomorphic (as additive groups). This construction is used to indicate an extension of the Chern-Weil construction of characteristic classes to bad orbifold vector bundles. In particular, we apply this construction to the orbifold Euler class and demonstrate that it acts as an obstruction to the existence of nonvanishing sections.

Review text

It is proved that every bad orbifold vector bundle can be realized as the restriction of a good orbifold vector bundle to a suborbifold of the base space. An explicit construction of this result in which the Chen-Ruan orbifold cohomologies of the two base spaces are isomorphic is given and this construction is used to indicate an extension of the Chern-Weil construction of characteristic classes to bad orbifold vector bundles. In particular, this construction is applied to the orbifold Euler class and it is proved that it acts as an obstruction to the existence of nonvanishing sections.

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