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The transverse density bundle and modular classes of Lie groupoids

Differential Geometry 2020-04-15 v1

Abstract

In this note we revisit the notions of transverse density bundle and of modular classes of Lie algebroids and Lie groupoids; in particular, we point out that one should use the transverse density bundle DAtr\mathcal{D}_{A}^{\textrm{tr}} instead of QAQ_A, which is the representation that is commonly used when talking about modular classes. One of the reasons for this is that, as we will see, QAQ_A is not really an object associated to the stack presented by a Lie groupoid (in general, it is not a representation of the groupoid!).

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@article{arxiv.2004.06162,
  title  = {The transverse density bundle and modular classes of Lie groupoids},
  author = {Marius Crainic and João Nuno Mestre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06162},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

8 pages; this note is an expanded version of a section which had appeared in the first version of arXiv:1603.01673 [math.DG]

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