Symmetries of supergeometries related to nonholonomic superdistributions (Q6152214): Difference between revisions

\textit{S. Kobayashi} [Transformation groups in differential geometry. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag (1972; Zbl 0246.53031)] claims that \(G\)-structures of finite type have finite-dimensional symmetry algebras and automorphism groups, and that the dimension of both is bounded via Sternberg prolongation [Zbl 0129.13102], which applies to the class of Cartan geometries that allow higher order reductions of the structure group. Similarly, the Tanaka prolongation [\textit{N. Tanaka}, J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 10, 1--82 (1970; Zbl 0206.50503)] dimension bounds the symmetry dimension in the case of strongly regular bracket-generating nonholomorphic distributions and related geometric structures [\textit{K. Yamaguchi}, Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 22, 413--494 (1993; Zbl 0812.17018)]. An analogue of the Tanaka prolongation in the super-setting is well-established, being used by \textit{V. G. Kac} [Adv. Math. 26, 8--96 (1977; Zbl 0366.17012)] in his classification obliged to the ideas of Weisfeiler filtration [\textit{B. Yu. Veĭsfeĭler}, Funct. Anal. Appl. 2, 88--89 (1968; Zbl 0245.17006); translation from Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 2, No. 1, 94--95 (1968)]. This paper exploits this algebraic Tanaka-Weisfeiler prolongation to construct a super-analogue of the Cartan-Tanaka frame bundle, with normalization conditions induced from the generalized Spencer complexes, which in turn implies a bound on the dimension of the symmetry superalgebra. The synopsis of the paper goes as follows. \begin{itemize} \item[\S 2] introduces the main tools for working with geometric structures on supermanifolds, showing that the main ideas behind the classical results can carry over to the super-setting. \item[\S 3] recalls the algebraic prolongation on the lines of Tanaka-Weifeiler, constructing the prolonged frame bundle with an absolute parallelism. One of the main technical features is the geometric realization as supermanifolds of the sheaves of frames in [\textit{D. V. Alekseevsky} et al., J. Geom. Phys. 26, No. 1--2, 37--50 (1998; Zbl 0952.58007)] in the context of \(G\)-structures. \item[\S 4] gives the proofs of the main theorems, using the constructed frame bundles and discussing supersymmetric dimension bounds. The authors exploit a relation of the prolongation to the Lie equation, noting that the symmetry algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\)\ of a filtered geometric structure can be obtained by a filtered subdeformation of \(\mathfrak{g}\). The maximal supersymmetry models are also addressed. \item[\S 5] gives new symmetry bounds, coveing holomorphic supermanifolds rigged out in affine, metric, symplectic, periplectic and projective structures, as well as nonholomorphic ones such as exceptional \(G\left( 3\right) \)-contact structures, equations of super Hilbert-Cartan type, super-Poincaré structures and some scalar odd ordinary differential equations. \end{itemize}