Sheaf theoretic characterization of etale groupoids

Abstract

The study of Haeflier suggests that it is natural to regard a pseudogroup as an etale groupoid. We show that any etale groupoid corresponds to a pseudogroup sheaf, a new generalization of a pseudogroup. This correspondence is an analog of the equivalence of the two definitions of a sheaf: as an etale space and as a contravariant functor.