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We consider (non-necessarily free) actions of subgroups H Z₂ᵐ on the real moment-angle manifold RZP corresponding to a simple convex n polytope P with m facets. The criterion when the orbit space RZP/H is a topological manifold (perhaps with a boundary) can be extracted from results by M. A. Mikhailova and C. Lange. For any dimension n we construct series of manifolds RZP/H homeomorphic to Sⁿ and series of manifolds Mⁿ= RZP/H admitting a hyperelliptic involution Z₂ᵐ/H, that is an involution such that Mⁿ/ is homeomorphic to Sⁿ. For any 3-polytope P we classify all subgroups H Z₂ᵐ such that RZP/H is a 3-sphere or a rational homology 3-sphere. For any 3-polytope P and any subgroup H Z₂ᵐ we classify all hyperelliptic involutions Z₂ᵐ/H acting on RZP/H. As a corollary we obtain that a 3-dimensional small cover has 3 hyperelliptic involutions in Z₂³ if and only if it is a rational homology 3-sphere and if and only if it correspond to a triple of Hamiltonian cycles such that each edge of the polytope belongs to exactly two of them.
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