Equivariant cobordism of torus orbifolds (Q2062909)

The main objects of interest in this paper are locally standard torus orbifolds, which are defined in Section 3.2. These are particular cases of even-dimensional connected and closed effective orbifolds with a torus action, and each has as orbit space a nice smooth manifold with corners. Section 3 deals with the properties of these objects, and presents for each such \(X\) of dimension \(2n\) what are called its \textit{combinatorial data}, a rational characteristic function \(\lambda\), and its \textit{topological data}, a smooth principal \(T^n\)-bundle \(\tau\) over its orbit space \(Q\), where \(T^n\) is the \(n\)-torus. These two data are enough to characterize any locally standard torus orbifold up to \(T^n\)-weakly equivariant diffeomorphism, as stated by the important Theorem 3.2. Its proof depends on the construction in Section 3.3, which takes a nice smooth manifold with corners \(Q\) and some combinatorial and topological data \(\lambda\) and \(\tau\) over \(Q\) and produces a locally standard torus orbifold over \(Q\), \(X(Q, \lambda, \tau)\), whose data (in the sense of Section 3.2) are precisely the given \(\lambda\) and \(\tau\). The main result in this paper is Theorem 4.1, which uses an adaptation of the above construction from Section 3.3. to produce an orientable effective orbifold with torus action whose boundary consists of a given finite set of disjoint orientable locally standard torus orbifolds. This result is later used to obtain some conclusions on (equivariant) cobordisms between some locally standard torus orbifolds \(X\). Of special interest is Theorem 5.1, stating that any such (oriented) \(X\) with \(k\) fixed points is equivariantly cobordant to a disjoint union of \(k\) orbifold complex projective spaces, a notion defined in Section 3.5 as a toric orbifold associated to a complete simplicial fan in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with \(n+1\) many \(1\)-dimensional cones. Section 5 presents several such cobordism results, dealing in particular with Hirzebruch surfaces (defined in Section 3.6 as nonsingular toric varieties corresponding to a specific complete fan), as in Theorem 5.3 and Corollary 5.3.