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.
In this survey paper the author explains how orbifolds are to be viewed as stacks. The article starts by stressing the fact that if orbifolds are to be considered as groupoids, then we are dealing with 2-categories. Thereafter the author desribes two, complementary different ways to realize orbifolds as 2-categories. One description is to consider orbifolds as Lie groupoids where bimododules replace functors, and where equivariant maps replace natural transformations. The other description is to view orbifolds as Deligne-Mumford stacks over manifolds.
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