How different are the supermanifolds of Rogers and De Witt? (Q1064628): Difference between revisions

The authors compare the DeWitt supermanifolds which are vector bundles over ordinary manifolds with the more general ones of Rogers which have a foliation by submanifolds. They show that constructions familiar from algebraic geometry such as solution sets of polynomial equations always yield DeWitt supermanifolds. A new example of a super structure on the 2- torus providing a non-DeWitt supermanifold is given. The foliation in this example combines compact and dense noncompact leaves. Finally, they give conditions when a Rogers supermanifold is a quotient space of flat superspace.