Vector bundles over Lie groupoids and algebroids

Groupoids and the Integration of Lie Algebroids

We show that a Lie algebroid on a stratified manifold is integrable if, and only if, its restriction to each strata is integrable. These results allow us to construct a large class of algebras of pseudodifferential operators. They are also relevant for the definition of the graph of certain singular foliations of manifolds with corners and the construction of natural algebras of pseudodifferent...

Lie Groupoids and Lie algebroids in physics and noncommutative geometry

Groupoids generalize groups, spaces, group actions, and equivalence relations. This last aspect dominates in noncommutative geometry, where groupoids provide the basic tool to desingularize pathological quotient spaces. In physics, however, the main role of groupoids is to provide a unified description of internal and external symmetries. What is shared by noncommutative geometry and physics is...

Lie, symplectic and Poisson groupoids and their Lie algebroids

Anchored Vector Bundles and Algebroids

Inspired by recent works of Zang Liu, Alan Weinstein and Ping Xu, we introduce the notions of CC algebroids and non asymmetric Courant algebroids and study these structures. It is shown that CC algebroids of rank greater than 3 are the same as Courant algebroids up to a constant factor, though the definition of CC algebroids is much simpler than that of Courant algebroids,requiring only 2 axiom...

Fell Bundles over Groupoids

We study the C*-algebras associated to Fell bundles over groupoids and give a notion of equivalence for Fell bundles which guarantees that the associated C*-algebras are strong Morita equivalent. As a corollary we show that any saturated Fell bundle is equivalent to a semi-direct product arising from the action of the groupoid on a C*-bundle. A C*-algebraic bundle (see [F2, §11]) over a locally...