Motives of Deligne-Mumford Stacks

Abstract

For every smooth and separated Deligne-Mumford stack $F$, we associate a motive $M(F)$ in Voevodsky's category of mixed motives with rational coefficients $\mathbf{DM}^{\eff}(k,\mathbb{Q})$. When $F$ is proper over a field of characteristic 0, we compare $M(F)$ with the Chow motive associated to $F$ by Toen (\cite{t}). Without the properness condition we show that $M(F)$ is a direct summand of the motive of a smooth quasi-projective variety.