Lie groupoids, deformation of unstable curves, and construction of equivariant Kuranishi charts (Q824258)

Summary: In this paper we give the detailed construction of a \(G\)-equivariant Kuranishi chart of moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic curves to a symplectic manifold with \(G\)-action, for an arbitrary compact Lie group \(G\). The proof is based on the deformation theory of \textit{unstable} marked curves using the language of Lie groupoids (which is \textit{not} necessarily étale) and the Riemannian center of mass technique. This proof is actually similar to Fukaya and Ono (Arnold conjecture and Gromov-Witten invariant, Topology 38 (1999), 933-1048, Sects. 13 and 15), except that the usage of the language of Lie groupoids makes the argument more transparent.