English

Lie groupoids determined by their orbit spaces

Differential Geometry 2024-03-26 v2

Abstract

Given a Lie groupoid, we can form its orbit space, which carries a natural diffeology. More generally, we have a quotient functor from the Hilsum-Skandalis category of Lie groupoids to the category of diffeological spaces. We introduce the notion of a lift-complete Lie groupoid, and show that the quotient functor restricts to an equivalence of the categories: of lift-complete Lie groupoids with isomorphism classes of surjective submersive bibundles as arrows, and of quasi-\'{e}tale diffeological spaces with surjective local subductions as arrows. In particular, the Morita equivalence class of a lift-complete Lie groupoid, alternatively a lift-complete differentiable stack, is determined by its diffeological orbit space. Examples of lift-complete Lie groupoids include quasifold groupoids and \'{e}tale holonomy groupoids of Riemannian foliations.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2310.11968,
  title  = {Lie groupoids determined by their orbit spaces},
  author = {David Miyamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11968},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

34 pages. Grouped several lemmas in a new subsection 3.1. Added subsection 3.2, where we show how certain PDEs generate examples of lift-complete pseudogroups. Section 5 is slightly re-arranged in response to the addition of subsection 3.2. In particular the proof of Proposition 5.4 in v1 has been re-done as Proposition 5.3

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:54:23.838Z