This book provides a striking synthesis of the standard theory of connections in principal bundles and the Lie theory of Lie groupoids.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. The algebra of groupoids; 2. Topological groupoids; 3. Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids; 4. The cohomology of Lie algebroids; 5. An obstruction to the integrability of transitive Lie algebroids; Appendix A: On principal bundles and Atiyah sequences; Appendix B: On Lie groups and Lie algebras; Appendix C: On vector bundles; References; Index.