Foliations on supermanifolds and characteristic classes (Q996154)

The author constructs secondary characteristic classes of regular superfoliations with trivialized normal bundle on smooth supermanifolds and shows that the role of the Lie algebra of formal vector fields with \(n\) variables is played here by the even part \(\text{Vect}(n,m)_{0}\) of the super-Lie algebra of formal supervector fields with \(n\) even variables and \(m\) odd variables. There is a canonical way to construct a superfoliation with trivialized normal bundle on a supermanifold starting from a flat foliated connection and therefore the author is able to give a theory of secondary characteristic classes of flat foliated connections. The paper contains definitions and basic facts to facilitate the understanding of the subject: the definition of superfoliations, the study of the Chevalley- Eilenberg cohomology of \(\text{Vect}(n,m)_{0}\), computation of the cohomology of \(\text{Vect}(n,m)_{0}\) with the help of the Weil algebra, etc.