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André Henriques
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I'll write some more about this later.

For the moment, I'll make a few remarks: "an orbifold is a topological space which looks locally like a finite quotient of Rn by a finite group of O(n)" is a bad definition. For example, it fails to address the (important!) class of non-effective orbifolds. E.g. the moduli space of elliptic curves is a non-effective orbifold because every elliptic curve has a $-1$ automorphism.

Second: it is important to realize that orbifolds form a 2-category, not a category! If you get something that looks like it's a category, you're doing something wrong.

André Henriques
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