The index of a vector field on an orbifold with boundary

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2009.2.161MaRDI QIDQ2390639zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elliot Paquette, Christopher Seaton

Publication date 31 July 2009

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2113

zbMATH Keywords

Morse indexorbifoldvector fieldEuler-Satake characteristicvector field indexorbifold doubleorbifold with boundaryPoincaré-Hopf theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R91) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Smooth approximations in differential topology (57R12)

Abstract: A Poincar'{e}-Hopf theorem in the spirit of Pugh is proven for compact orbifolds with boundary. The theorem relates the index sum of a smooth vector field in generic contact with the boundary orbifold to the Euler-Satake characteristic of the orbifold and a boundary term. The boundary term is expressed as a sum of Euler characteristics of tangency and exit-region orbifolds. As a corollary, we express the index sum of the vector field induced on the inertia orbifold to the Euler characteristics of the associated underlying topological spaces.

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