The Calabi construction for compact flat orbifolds

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2014.09.005MaRDI QIDQ471448zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John G. Ratcliffe, S. Tschantz

Publication date 14 November 2014

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2014.09.005

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi generalized constructionctystallographic groupfibre bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

Review text

An \(n\)-dimensional crystallographic group (space group) is a discrete group \(G\) of isometries of Euclidean \(n\)-space \(\mathbb R^n\) whose orbit space \(\mathbb R^n/G\) is compact. In a previous paper entitled ``Fibered orbifolds and crystallographic groups, [Algebr. Geom. Topol. 10, No. 3, 1627--1664 (2010; Zbl 1245.57026)], the authors proved that the fibered orbifold structures of \(\mathbb R^n/G\) are in one-to-one correspondence with the complete normal subgroups of \(G\). A normal subgroup \(N\) of \(G\) is complete precisely when \(G/N\) is also a space group. In the present paper it is proved that a fibered orbifold structure on \(\mathbb R^n/G\) can be described by a generalized Calabi construction, that is, \(\mathbb R^n/G\) is represented as the quotient of the Cartesian product of two flat orbifolds under the diagonal action of a structure group of isometries. The authors determine the structure group. Many examples are given which illustrate the above results, mainly in dimensions 2 and 3.

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