The geodesic flow on a Riemannian supermanifold (Q414530): Difference between revisions

Based on \textit{B. Kostant} [Differ. geom. Meth. math. Phys., Proc. Symp. Bonn 1975, Lect. Notes Math. 570, 177--306 (1977; Zbl 0358.53024)] and \textit{D. A. Leites} [Russ. Math. Surv. 35, No. 1, 1--64 (1980; Zbl 0462.58002)], the present paper shows the existence and unicity of a supergeodesic (defined in a way different from \textit{O. Goertsches} [Math. Z. 260, No. 3, 557--593 (2008; Zbl 1154.58001)] for a given initial condition. Then, a natural ``energy function'' H on the co-tangent bundle \(T*\mathcal M\) of a supermanifold \(\mathcal M\) and an associated Hamiltonian vector field \(X_H\) is obtained. It is proved here that integral curves of \(X_H\) on \(T*\mathcal M\) are in natural bijection with geodesics on \(\mathcal M\). The corresponding exponential map is constructed. As an example of an application it is shown that linearization in a fixed point of an isometry of a Riemannian supermanifold is faithful.