Supermanifold Forms and Integration. A Dual Theory

zbMATH Open0893.58008arXivdg-ga/9603009MaRDI QIDQ4379998FDOQ4379998

Authors: F. F. Voronov 

Publication date: 4 August 1998

Abstract: We investigate forms on supermanifolds defined as Lagrangians of ``copaths (that is, systems of equations, which may or may not specify submanifolds). For this, we consider direct products $M^{n|m}imesBbb{R}^{r|s}$ and study isomorphisms corresponding to simultaneously advancing the number of additional parameters $r|s$ and the number of equations. We define an exteriour differential in terms of variational derivatives w.r.t. a copath and establish its main properties. In the resulting stable picture we obtain infinite complexes $D:OmrsoOmr+1s$ for $M^{n|m}$, where $0leslem$ and $r$ can be any integer. For $rge0$ a canonical isomorphism with forms constructed as Lagrangians of $r|s$-paths is established. We discover the ``lacking half of forms on supermanifolds: $r|s$-forms with $r<0$, previously unknown except for $s=m$. (They have been partly replaced earlier by an augmentation of the ``non-negative part of the complexes.) All these results are new. The study of these questions is in progress now.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9603009

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zbMATH Keywords

exterior differentialvariational derivativesforms on supermanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50) Analysis on supermanifolds or graded manifolds (58C50)

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• On forms, cohomology and BV Laplacians in odd symplectic geometry
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