Fibered orbifolds and crystallographic groups

Details Fibered orbifolds and crystallographic groups Fibered orbifolds and crystallographic groups

2008-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/0804.0427v2

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Geometric Topology

26 pages, 1 Table. Some new theorems have been added to v2

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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.

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