Fibered orbifolds and crystallographic groups

DOI10.2140/AGT.2010.10.1627zbMATH Open1245.57026arXiv0804.0427OpenAlexW3099473784MaRDI QIDQ986680FDOQ986680

Authors: John G. Ratcliffe, S. Tschantz 

Publication date: 11 August 2010

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we prove that a normal subgroup N of an n-dimensional crystallographic group G determines a geometric fibered orbifold structure on the flat orbifold E^n/G, and conversely every geometric fibered orbifold structure on E^n/G is determined by a normal subgroup N of G, which is maximal in its commensurability class of normal subgroups of G. In particular, we prove that E^n/G is a fiber bundle, with totally geodesic fibers, over a b-dimensional torus, where b is the first Betti number of G. Let N be a normal subgroup of G which is maximal in its commensurability class. We study the relationship between the exact sequence 1 -> N -> G -> G/N -> 1 splitting and the corresponding fibration projection having an affine section. If N is torsion-free, we prove that the exact sequence splits if and only if the fibration projection has an affine section. If the generic fiber F = Span(N)/N has an ordinary point that is fixed by every isometry of F, we prove that the exact sequence always splits. Finally, we describe all the geometric fibrations of the orbit spaces of all 2- and 3-dimensional crystallographic groups building on the work of Conway and Thurston.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0427

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zbMATH Keywords

orbifoldextension of groupscommensurable groupsspace groupcrystallographic groupgeometric fibered

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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