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Crossed modules and the integrability of Lie brackets

Differential Geometry 2008-07-01 v2

Abstract

We show that the integrability obstruction of a transitive Lie algebroid coincides with the lifting obstruction of a crossed module of groupoids associated naturally with the given algebroid. Then we extend this result to general extensions of integrable transitive Lie algebroids by Lie algebra bundles. Such a lifting obstruction is directly related with the classification of extensions of transitive Lie groupoids. We also give a classification of such extensions which differentiates to the classification of transitive Lie algebroids discussed in \cite{KCHM:new}.

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@article{arxiv.math/0501103,
  title  = {Crossed modules and the integrability of Lie brackets},
  author = {Iakovos Androulidakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0501103},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

34 pages, revised version. New abstract and introduction. Added examples and remarks

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