A groupoid approach to transitive differential geometry
Abstract
This work is a spin-off of an on-going programme which aims at revisiting the original studies of Lie and Cartan on pseudogroups and geometric structures from a modern perspective. We encode geometric structures induced by transitive Lie pseudogroups into principal -bundles equipped with a transversally parallelisable foliation generated by a subalgebra of , called Cartan bundles. Our approach is complementary to arXiv:1911.13147 and is based on Morita equivalence of Lie groupoids. After identifying the main examples and properties, we develop a notion of flatness with respect to a Lie algebra, which encompasses the classical integrability of -structures, the flatness of Cartan geometries, as well as the integrability of contact structures.
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@article{arxiv.2211.16639,
title = {A groupoid approach to transitive differential geometry},
author = {Luca Accornero and Francesco Cattafi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.16639},
year = {2022}
}
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52 pages