How different are the supermanifolds of Rogers and De Witt? (Q1064628)

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.