Some remarks on the global structure of proper Lie groupoids in low codimensions (Q629731)

The paper comments on some open problems about the global topological structure of proper Lie groupoids. In particular, the author observes that any connected proper Lie groupoid whose orbits have codimension at most two admits a globally effective representation. As a consequence, any such groupoid can be presented as an extension -- modulo Morita equivalence -- of some action groupoid \(G \ltimes X\) with \(G\) compact by some bundle of compact Lie groups.