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Modular Classes of Lie Groupoid Representations up to Homotopy

Differential Geometry 2015-07-28 v3

Abstract

We describe a construction of the modular class associated to a representation up to homotopy of a Lie groupoid. In the case of the adjoint representation up to homotopy, this class is the obstruction to the existence of a volume form, in the sense of Weinstein's "The volume of a differentiable stack".

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@article{arxiv.1502.06253,
  title  = {Modular Classes of Lie Groupoid Representations up to Homotopy},
  author = {Rajan Amit Mehta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06253},
  year   = {2015}
}