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This is an introduction to complex orbifolds with an emphasis on orbifolds in dimension 2 and covering relations between them.
This work was supported by TÜBİTAK grant KARİYER-104T136 and achieved thanks to the support of the European Commission through its 6th Framework Program “Structuring the European Research Area” and the contract Nr. RITA-CT-2004-505493 for the provision of Transnational Access implemented as Specific Support Action.
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Uludağ, A.M. (2007). Orbifolds and Their Uniformization. In: Holzapfel, RP., Uludağ, A.M., Yoshida, M. (eds) Arithmetic and Geometry Around Hypergeometric Functions. Progress in Mathematics, vol 260. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8284-1_13
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