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$% W. D. Dunbar, Geometric orbifolds, Rev. Mat. Univ. Complut. Madrid 1 (1988), no. 1, 2, 3, 67–99.%$
Geometric Orbifolds
An orbifold is a topological space which “locally looks like” the orbit space of
a properly discontinuous group action on a manifold. After a brief review of
basic concepts, we consider the special case 3-dimensional orbifolds of the form
, where
is a simply-connected 3-dimensional homogeneous space
corresponding to one of Thurston’s eight geometries, and where
acts properly discontinuously. A general description of these geometric orbifolds
is given and the closed oriented geometric 3-orbifolds with
as their
underlying topological space are enumerated (except for hyperbolic orbifolds.
1980 Mathematics Subject Classification (1985 revision): 22E40.