The Fredholm property for groupoids is a local property (Q2275297)

Fredholm Lie groupoids were introduced as a tool for the study of partial differential equations on open manifolds. This article extends the definition to the setting of locally compact groupoids and proves that ``the Fredholm property is local'' in the following sense: let \(\mathcal{G}\) be a topological groupoid with unit space \(X\), and \(\{Ui\}_{i\in I}\) an open cover of \(X\). The author shows that \(\mathcal{G}\) is a Fredholm groupoid if, and only if, its reductions \(\mathcal{G}_{U_i}^{U_i}\) are Fredholm groupoids for all \(i\in I\).