Orbifolds, sheaves and groupoids
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Orbifolds, sheaves and groupoids
zbMATH Open document ID: 0883.22005
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007767628271
published in: \(K\)-Theory
publication date: 1998-03-16T00:00:00Z
review text: Orbifolds were defined by \textit{I. Satake} [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 42, 359-363 (1956; Zbl 0074.18103)] and have been studied by \textit{Thurston} [Notes (Minnesota, 1992)]. An orbifold is a space \(M\), together with an atlas of charts consisting of an open set \(\widetilde U\) of \(\mathbb{R}^n\), for some \(n>0\), an action of a finite group of \(C^\infty\)-automorphisms \(G\) on \(\widetilde U\) and a homeomorphism of \(\widetilde U/G\) onto an open set \(\widetilde U\) of \(M\). Any orbit space of a proper action of a discrete group on a manifold has an orbifold structure, so moduli spaces are orbifolds. The leaf space of any foliation with compact leaves and finite holonomy also has an orbifold structure. The authors associate to each orbifold a category of sheaves. This category of sheaves characterises the orbifold and vice versa. The category of sheaves is also the category of sheaves on a groupoid of germs of diffeomorphisms and so the orbifold is completely determined by this groupoid. These results can be used to obtain change of base formulae for sheaf cohomology of orbifolds and to identify the fundamental groupoid of the orbifold in terms of that of the classifying space of the associated groupoid.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22A22
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57S15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55N30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 18B25
zbMATH DE Number: 1059650
zbMATH Keywords: orbifolds
zbMATH Keywords: orbit space
zbMATH Keywords: manifold
zbMATH Keywords: moduli spaces
zbMATH Keywords: leaf space
zbMATH Keywords: category of sheaves
zbMATH Keywords: groupoid
zbMATH Keywords: sheaf cohomology
author: Ieke Moerdijk
author: Dorette Pronk
reviewed by: Timothy Porter
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