• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.1369-1400
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• 2013

The concept of "orbifold embedding" is introduced. This is more general than sub-orbifolds. Some properties of orbifold embeddings are studied, and in the case of translation groupoids, orbifold embedding is shown to be equivalent to a strong equivariant immersion.