Supersymmetric Killing structures (Q1781829)

The author combines the notions of supergeometry and supersymmetry to study a special class of supermanifolds whose reduced manifolds are pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. Such supermanifolds permit him to treat vector and spinor fields as equivalent geometric objects, and enable him to define supersymmetric Killing structures. This notion, when certain field equations are imposed, combines the subspaces of vector and spinor fields, and yields a superalgebra that extends the supersymmetry algebra to a non-flat reduced space. Contents include: Introduction; Special graded manifold, (SGM); Fields on the SGM; Supersymmetric Killing structures, (SSKS); SSKS on manifolds with special holonomies, (Kähler manifolds, real SSKS in the \(\text{SU}(n)\) case, complex SSKS in the \(\text{SU}(n)\) case, \(\text{Spin}(7)\) and \(G_2\) manifolds, and Brinkmann spaces); The central part of the SSKS; Further remarks; and three appendices dealing with spin geometry, supersymmetry, and conventions in dimension four.