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Characteristic Classes of Bad Orbifold Vector Bundles
We show that every bad orbifold vector bundle can be realized as the
restriction of a good orbifold vector bundle to a suborbifold of the base
space. We give an explicit construction of this result in which the Chen-Ruan
orbifold cohomology of the two base spaces are isomorphic (as additive groups).
This construction is used to indicate an extension of the Chern-Weil
construction of characteristic classes to bad orbifold vector bundles. In
particular, we apply this construction to the orbifold Euler class and
demonstrate that it acts as an obstruction to the existence of nonvanishing
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