Orbifold Stiefel-Whitney Classes of Real Orbifold Vector Bundles over Right-Angled Coxeter Complexes

Abstract

The author gives a definition of orbifold Stiefel-Whitney classes of real orbifold vector bundles over special q-CW complexes (i.e., right-angled Coxeter complexes). Similarly to ordinary Stiefel-Whitney classes, orbifold Stiefel-Whitney classes here also satisfy the associated axiomatic properties.

Keywords

Right-Angled Coxeter orbifold / Stiefel-Whitney class / Group representation

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