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

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.