Branchfolds and rational conifolds

MaRDI QIDQ4648922zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Silvia Benvenuti, Riccardo Piergallini, Giacomo Tomassoni

Publication date 16 November 2012

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2953

zbMATH Keywords

branched coveringorbifoldbranchfoldrational conifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Abstract: We extend the concept of orbifold to that of branchfold, in order to allow any cone singularities with rational angles, and show why branchfolds naturally fit in the theory of branched coverings. Then, we obtain a geometric goodness theorem for branchfolds and apply it to prove that a conifold can be endowed with branchfold structure if and only if it has locally finite holonomy.

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• Orbifolds and Their Uniformization

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