From: Andree Ehresmann <Andree.Ehresmann@u-picardie.fr>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Groups vs. groupoids (Pat Donaly)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:22:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030716182606.009f0ec0@mailx.u-picardie.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <144.155b11ae.2c4454d4@aol.com>
In answer to Pat Donaly
The connection between group actions and groupoids has been known and
extensively used for a long time. It was realized by Charles Ehresmann in
the early fifties. In fact Charles came to categories from groupoids, and
to groupoids from group actions and from pseudogroups of transformations.
In particular, in his works on fibre bundles and Differential Geometry, he
associated a groupoid to a pseudogroup of transformations (1), then
considered action of groupoids of jets as extending group actions (2).
In the paper (3) he introduces topological and differentiable categories
(i.e., internal to Top and to Diff), in view of associating to a principal
bundle H a particular topological groupoid P (called a locally trivial
groupoid). He then finds the locally trivial bundles associated to H as the
spaces on which there is an (internal) action of this groupoid. Given a
topological space F with an action of a sub-group of P, he constructs such
a space with fibre F by an "enlargement" process he had defined in his
important paper (4).
These results and many others can be found in the series of papers
reprinted in "Charles Ehresmann : Oeuvres completes et commentees" (more
specially in Part I), 1980-83..
(1) Les prolongements d'une variété différentiable, Atti IV
Cong. dell'Unione Mate. Italiana, Taormina 1951, reprinted in "Oeuvres",
Part I, pp. 207-215.
(2) Introduction à la théorie des structures infinitésmales et des
pseudo-groupes de Lie, Actes Coll. Intern. Geom. Diff. Strasbourg, CNRS
1953, reprinted in "Oeuvres", Part I, pp. 217-230.
(3) Categories topologiques et categories differentiables, Coll. Geom.
Diff. Globale, CBRM Bruxelles 1959, reprinted in "Oeuvres", Part I, pp.
237-250.
(4) Gattungen von lokalen Strukturen, Jahres. d. Deutsches Math. 60-2,
1957, reprinted in "Oeuvres", Part II, pp. 125-153.
Andree C. Ehresmann
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