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What does it mean for a space to be a differentiable stack?

(I'd like to premise that I'm not an expert about these topics (just a student), so many of my doubts and perplexities are probably symptoms of my mathematical immaturity) I'm currently studying ...
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Gauge groupoid of Lorentz group & complexification

I'm learning about Lie groupoids and was inspired (by Mackenzie's book) to consider the following problem. Consider first a principal bundle $P\xrightarrow G M$; we can construct the quotient manifold ...
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Fibered product of stacks comes from a Lie groupoid

I am adding some context here. I am reading Introduction to Differentiable Stacks by Gregory Ginot. In page no $7$, just before the remark $2.2$ he says the following. One shall be careful that ...
Praphulla Koushik's user avatar
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What are Lie groupoids intuitively?

I am trying to understand about Lie groupoids but not able to get feeling for what it actually is. So, question here is, What are Lie groupoids? How similar are they to Lie groups, Groupoids and ...
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Construction of the Lie functor: left vs. right invariant vector fields on Lie groups and Lie groupoids

When constructing the Lie algebra $L(G)$ of a Lie group $G$, one usually uses the identification of the tangent space $T_1 G$ with left invariant vector fields $\mathcal{V}^l(G)$ to construct the Lie ...
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