Title: On local categories of finite groups Author: Fei Xu Address: Department of Mathematics, Shantou University, 243 University Road, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, China. email: fxu@stu.edu.cn Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite group. Over any finite G-poset $\P$ we may define a transporter category as the corresponding Grothendieck construction. Transporter categories are generalizations of subgroups of G, and we shall demonstrate the finite generation of their cohomology. We record a generalized Frobenius reciprocity and use it to examine some important quotient categories of transporter categories, customarily called local categories. Status: Math. Zeit. 272 (2012) 1023-1036.