The geodesic flow on a Riemannian supermanifold

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2012.02.002zbMATH Open1242.53046arXiv1107.1815OpenAlexW2014232915WikidataQ115353232 ScholiaQ115353232MaRDI QIDQ414530FDOQ414530

Authors: Stéphane Garnier, Tilmann Wurzbacher 

Publication date: 11 May 2012

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a natural definition of geodesics on a Riemannian supermanifold and extend the usual geodesic flow defined on the cotangent bundle of the body of the supermanifold, associated to the induced Riemannian structure on the body, to a geodesic "superflow" on the cotangent bundle of the supermanifold. Integral curves of this flow turn out to be in natural bijection with geodesics on the Riemannian supermanifold. We also construct the corresponding exponential map and generalize the well-known faithful linearization of isometries to Riemannian supermanifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1815

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsgeodesic flowRiemannian metricssupermanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50) Analysis on supermanifolds or graded manifolds (58C50)

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