scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1146391
bornological topological vector spacesGrassmanninan algebrasLie superalgebrasLie's third theoremsupergroups
Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Functional analysis on superspaces (supermanifolds) or graded spaces (46S60) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50) Analysis on supermanifolds or graded manifolds (58C50)
Satisfactory analogues of Lie's third fundamental theorem (aka Lie-Cartan theorem) in supergeometry, that is, results on possibility to associate a (Lie) supergroup to a Lie superalgebra, have been established in finite dimensions within the Berezin--Leĭtes--Kostant scheme of things [\textit{F. A. Berezin} and \textit{D. A. Leĭtes}, Sov. Math., Dokl. 16, 1218-1222 (1975; Zbl 0331.58005); \textit{B. Kostant}, Graded manifolds, graded Lie theory and prequantization, in: Differential Geom. Meth. Math. Phys., Proc. Symp. Bonn 1975, Lect. Notes Math. 570, 177-306 (1977; Zbl 0358.53024)], and then extended to an (at least, formally) more general, the so-called DeWitt--Rogers, approach to supergeometry [ see e.g. \textit{V. Pestov}, Lett. Math. Phys. 18, No. 1, 27-33 (1989; Zbl 0692.22010); A correspondence between finite-dimensional Lie superalgebras and supergroups, Extr. Math. 7, No. 2-3, 119-125 (1992)]. Notice that the exact relationship between the graded manifolds (that is, Berezin--Leĭtes--Kostant supermanifolds) and DeWitt--Rogers supermanifolds has not been established yet, though there is some evidence (and a general consensus among the, often fragmented, community of supergeometers) that the latter can be eventually merged into the framework of the former [ cf. e.g. \textit{C. Bartocci, U. Bruzzo, D. Hernandez Ruiperez} and \textit{V. Pestov}, Supermanifold theory: towards a unifying approach, in: WOGDA '95. Proceedings of the 4th fall workshop on differential geometry and its applications, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 18-20, 1995. Madrid: CIEMAT. An. Fis., Monogr. 3, 1-16 (1996; Zbl 0915.58009)]. While in finite dimensions the results obtained within the two approaches are totally similar, the difference shows up in infinite dimensions: as observed by the present reviewer [\textit{V. G. Pestov}, J. Geom. Phys. 10, No. 4, 295-314 (1993; Zbl 0771.17024)], there exists a Fréchet--Lie superalgebra over a non-trivial Grassmannian algebra of coefficients that comes from a Lie supergroup in the sense of Rogers but not in the sense of DeWitt. This is why pursuing research within the DeWitt--Rogers approach to infinite dimensional objects of Lie theory is of great interest because it is apparently not subsumed by similar research done in the context of infinite-dimensional graded manifolds in the spirit of [\textit{T. Schmitt}, Rev. Math. Phys. 9, No. 8, 993-1052 (1997; Zbl 0897.58003)]. Such are the setting and the rationale of the most interesting paper under review. In the paper, the author is `superising' his well-known approach to the (`purely even'!) infinite-dimensional Lie theory [see e.g. \textit{J. Leslie}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 333, No. 1, 423-443 (1992; Zbl 0781.22015); Differential geometry, calculus of variations, and their applications, Dedic. Mem. L. Euler 200th Anniv. Death, Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math. 100, 359-372 (1985; Zbl 0579.58007)]. Manifolds within Leslie's approach are modelled on sequentially complete bornological topological vector spaces, and a basic role is played by the path functor and the concept of a Lie scheme associated to `sufficiently good' (the so-called pre-integrable) infinite-dimensional Lie algebras; under some additional conditions, a Lie scheme (which is, roughly speaking, a group object in a suitable category of foliations) turns out to be an infinite-dimensional Lie group. A large part of the article (in excess of 90\% total length, in fact) is devoted to elaborating in great detail this approach to infinite-dimensional Lie theory. In the remaining 10\% an analogue of the procedure of extension of scalars is given; more precisely, the number field is being replaced with a topological graded-commutative algebra of `superconstants' of the theory. The main Theorem 4.1 lists some condition under which a topological Lie superalgebra over a topological graded-commutative algebra admits an associated Lie scheme. It is really a pity that this result is not elaborated further and no corollaries, enabling to link it to the previously known results and to see where it really stands, are extracted.
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