Toric quasifolds (Q6114805)

The paper is a survey of questions concerning quasifolds, a class of highly singular spaces. They were introduced in order to address, from the symplectic viewpoint, the longstanding open problem of extending the classical constructions of toric geometry to convex polytopes that are not rational. Quasifolds are locally modeled by manifolds modulo the smooth action of countable groups. If all these groups are finite, then quasifolds are orbifolds, and if they are equal to the trivial group, quasifolds are manifolds. The author explains the roles of spheres, orbispheres and quasispheres and other key points in the theory of quasifolds and the relationship of this theory to aperiodic tilings, regular convex polyhedra and quasicrystals.