Monodromy and faithful representability of Lie groupoids (Q1744606)

The author constructs an associated monodromy group \(\mathrm{Mon}(\mathcal G,\rho)\) for any topological groupoid \(\mathcal G\) and any homomorphism \(\rho\) from a locally compact Hausdorff topological group \(K\) to \(\mathcal G\). He proves that Morita equivalent topological groupoids have the same monodromy groups. He also shows how the monodromy groups can be used to test if a Lie groupoid lacks faithful representations.