The volume of a differentiable stack

DOI10.1007/S11005-009-0343-2MaRDI QIDQ844118zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan Weinstein

Publication date 18 January 2010

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2130

zbMATH Keywords

differentiable stackmodular classLie groupoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05)

Abstract: We extend the notion of the cardinality of a discrete groupoid (equal to the Euler characteristic of the corresponding discrete orbifold) to the setting of Lie groupoids. Since this quantity is an invariant under equivalence of groupoids, we call it the volume of the associated stack rather than of the groupoid itself. Since there is no natural measure in the smooth case like the counting measure in the discrete case, we need extra data to define the volume. This data has the form of an invariant section of a natural line bundle over the groupoid. Sections of a square root of this line bundle constitute an "intrinsic Hilbert space" of the stack.

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