The volume of a differentiable stack
arXiv:0809.2130 · doi:10.1007/s11005-009-0343-2
Abstract
We extend the notion of the cardinality of a discrete groupoid (equal to the Euler characteristic of the corresponding discrete orbifold) to the setting of Lie groupoids. Since this quantity is an invariant under equivalence of groupoids, we call it the volume of the associated stack rather than of the groupoid itself. Since there is no natural measure in the smooth case like the counting measure in the discrete case, we need extra data to define the volume. This data has the form of an invariant section of a natural line bundle over the groupoid. Sections of a square root of this line bundle constitute an "intrinsic Hilbert space" of the stack.
20 pages, To appear in proceedings of Poisson 2008 (Lausanne, July 2008), further minor revisions
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