{chamber Systems, Coloured Graphs and Orbifolds
{chamber Systems, Coloured Graphs and Orbifolds
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{腔室系统、彩色图表和 Orbifolds
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1996
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通讯作者:
A. Valverde
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L. Balke;A. Valverde
We deene the notion of covering projections for {chamber systems in purely algebraic terms and construct a presentation for the group of decktransfor-mations of such a covering. Translating this concept into the language of orbifolds yields a presentation of the fundamental group of an orbifold. In the literature, one can nd at least two diierent approaches to the problem of encoding manifolds in an eecient way, by means of some combinatorial structure. One method uses coloured graphs (as reference see e.g. 5]). The other approach employs {chamber systems (cf. 4]). The latter concept was developed by Dress, as a method of describing tilings of a simply connected manifold which are equivariant with respect to some group, acting on that manifold. His so{called Delaney symbol, which is associated with such an equivariant tiling, contains the complete information about the orbifold which one obtains by passing to the orbit space of the group action. In the language of coloured graphs, there also exists a notion for encoding orbifold{ structures: the concept of coverings, or folded coverings (cf. 2]).