Nonvanishing vector fields on orbifolds

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04938-1MaRDI QIDQ3402211zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carla Farsi, Christopher Seaton

Publication date 2 February 2010

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2738

zbMATH Keywords

orbifoldorbifold Euler characteristicorbifold Euler classorbifold sectororbifold with boundaryvector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant operations and obstructions in algebraic topology (55S91) Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05)

Abstract: We introduce a complete obstruction to the existence of nonvanishing vector fields on a closed orbifold $Q$. Motivated by the inertia orbifold, the space of multi-sectors, and the generalized orbifold Euler characteristics, we construct for each finitely generated group $Gamma$ an orbifold called the space of $Gamma$-sectors of $Q$. The obstruction occurs as the Euler-Satake characteristics of the $Gamma$-sectors for an appropriate choice of $Gamma$; in the case that $Q$ is oriented, this obstruction is expressed as a cohomology class, the $Gamma$-Euler-Satake class. We also acquire a complete obstruction in the case that $Q$ is compact with boundary and in the case that $Q$ is an open suborbifold of a closed orbifold.

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