Integration on supermanifolds and a generalized Cartan calculus (Q1093963)

So-called superspace as being originally introduced by A. Salam and J. Strathdee (1974) has besides the coordinates \(x^{\mu}\) \((\mu =0,...,3)\) which are commuting (even, bosonic), additional anticommuting (odd, fermionic) coordinates \(\theta^{\alpha}\) \((\alpha =1,...,4)\). Here according to a suggestion of F. A. Berezin (1976) integration on supermanifolds is given a geometric meaning assuming that a supermanifold is the total space of a fibre bundle with connection. Objects of integration are identified as horizontal/vertical projections of hyperforms. The exterior calculus of these projected hyperforms is developed, analogously to the Cartan calculus. Namely this gave rise to a covariant exterior derivative in contrast to A. Rogers (1984).