Natural bundles over smooth etendues
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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Halifax category years, where I had the privilege of participating, I would like to dedicate this talk to The Internationalists. The content of the talk is meant as a contribution to the program of investigating the differential geometry of smooth etendues by category theoretic (and groupoid theoretic) means. It represents reflections based on long term joint work with Ieke Moerdijk on this topic.
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