#### Volume 13, issue 4 (2013)

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On real analytic orbifolds and Riemannian metrics

### Marja Kankaanrinta

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 13 (2013) 2369–2381
##### Abstract

We begin by showing that every real analytic orbifold has a real analytic Riemannian metric. It follows that every reduced real analytic orbifold can be expressed as a quotient of a real analytic manifold by a real analytic almost free action of a compact Lie group. We then extend a well-known result of Nomizu and Ozeki concerning Riemannian metrics on manifolds to the orbifold setting: Let $X$ be a smooth (real analytic) orbifold and let $\alpha$ be a smooth (real analytic) Riemannian metric on $X$. Then $X$ has a complete smooth (real analytic) Riemannian metric conformal to $\alpha$.

##### Keywords
orbifold, real analytic, complete Riemannian metric, frame bundle
Primary: 57R18
##### Publication
Accepted: 17 March 2013
Published: 2 July 2013
##### Authors
 Marja Kankaanrinta Department of Mathematics University of Virginia PO Box 400137 Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA