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Deformations of Lie groupoids

Differential Geometry 2020-11-19 v3

Abstract

We study deformations of Lie groupoids by means of the cohomology which controls them. This cohomology turns out to provide an intrinsic model for the cohomology of a Lie groupoid with values in its adjoint representation. We prove several fundamental properties of the deformation cohomology including Morita invariance, a van Est theorem, and a vanishing result in the proper case. Combined with Moser's deformation arguments for groupoids, we obtain several rigidity and normal form results.

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@article{arxiv.1510.02530,
  title  = {Deformations of Lie groupoids},
  author = {Marius Crainic and João Nuno Mestre and Ivan Struchiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.02530},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

45 pages. Published version; corrected typos

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