Orbifolds as stacks?

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DOI10.4171/LEM/56-3-4zbMATH Open1221.14003arXiv0806.4160MaRDI QIDQ536448FDOQ536448


Authors: Eugene Lerman Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 18 May 2011

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The first goal of this survey paper is to argue that if orbifolds are groupoids, then the collection of orbifolds and their maps has to be thought of as a 2-category. Compare this with the classical definition of Satake and Thurston of orbifolds as a 1-category of sets with extra structure and/or with the "modern" definition of orbifolds as proper etale Lie groupoids up to Morita equivalence. The second goal is to describe two complementary ways of thinking of orbifolds as a 2-category: 1. the weak 2-category of foliation Lie groupoids, bibundles and equivariant maps between bibundles and 2. the strict 2-category of Deligne-Mumford stacks over the category of smooth manifolds.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4160




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