Integral representations on supermanifolds: super Hodge duals, PCOs and Liouville forms (Q2361100): Difference between revisions

Standard differential geometric constructions are often difficult to generalise to the case of supermanifolds. In particular, the complex of differential forms is infinite-dimensional and concepts such as the Hodge dual do not make sense. Instead, with the use of Berezin integral forms and their Fourier analysis, one can define a Hodge star as an integral operator. This is done so that a certain Berezin integral transform mirrors the theory of Fourier analysis, i.e. the Hodge star commutes with this integral transform. In this paper, these constructions are reviewed and elaborated from a perspective that has physical applications in mind. For example, the picture-changing operators in string theory are defined as an integral transform in this set up and the super-Liouville form on a super-Kähler manifold is defined.