Quillen superconnections and connections on supermanifolds

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2014.07.035MaRDI QIDQ478832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors José V. Beltrán, Juan Monterde, José A. Vallejo

Publication date 4 December 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3677

zbMATH Keywords

Chern classesgraded connectionssuperconnectionssupermanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex supergeometry (32C11) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50)

Abstract: Given a supervector bundle $E=E_{0}oplus{E}_{1}oM$, we exhibit a parametrization of Quillen superconnections on $E$ by graded connections on the Cartan-Koszul supermanifold $(M;Omega(M))$. The relation between the curvatures of both kind of connections, and their associated Chern classes, is discussed in detail. In particular, we find that Chern classes for graded vector bundles on split supermanifolds can be computed through the associated Quillen superconnections.

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