Almost complex structure, blowdowns and McKay correspondence in quasitoric orbifolds (Q2435303)

A quasitoric orbifold is a \(2n\)-dimensional orbifold with an action of an \(n\)-dimensional torus such that the orbit space is a polytope. An omniorientation is a choice of a orientation for the quasitoric orbifold as well as for each invariant suborbifold of codimension two. In the paper under review it is shown that every positively omnioriented primitive quasitoric orbifold admits an invariant almost complex structure compatible with the omniorientation. This generalizes results of \textit{A. A. Kustarev} [Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 266, 133--141 (2009); translation from Tr. Mat. Inst. Steklova 266, 140--148 (2009; Zbl 1195.57072)] for the case of quasitoric manifolds. Moreover, Chen-Ruan cohomology is defined for omnioriented quasitoric orbifolds. This generalizes the usual definition for almost complex orbifolds. It is shown that the Euler-characteristic (the Betti-numbers, respectively) of Chen-Ruan cohomology is preserved by crepant blowdowns of quasi-SL omnioriented quasitoric orbifolds in abritrary dimensions (in dimensions atmost six, respectively). This last result may be viewed as a form of McKay correspondence for quasitoric orbifolds of dimension atmost six.