Thursday, 5 January 2012

dg.differential geometry - What is the local structure of a Lie groupoid?

A manifold is locally mathbbRn. An orbifold is locally mathbbRn/textfinitegroup. Is there a similar way to think about the local structure of a Lie groupoid G1rightrightarrowsG0?



For example, the Lie algebroid determines a distribution on G0, and I think that it is locally integrable? What extra structure "local" structure of the groupoid is there (e.g. this distribution loses the data about the automorphisms of a point).



Finally, is the right notion of "local structure" well-behaved under equivalences of groupoids? If it is, then I really should change the title of the question to "What is the local structure of a smooth stack?".

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