Berezin integral as a limit of Riemann sum

DOI10.1063/1.5144877zbMATH Open1452.81135arXiv0908.2605OpenAlexW3114833582MaRDI QIDQ5136169FDOQ5136169

Authors: Roman Sverdlov, T. J. Scanlon 

Publication date: 25 November 2020

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Berezin integration of functions of anticommuting Grassmann variables is usually seen as a formal operation, sometimes even defined via differentiation. Using the formalism of geometric algebra and geometric calculus in which the Grassmann numbers are endowed with a second associative product coming from a Clifford algebra structure, we show how Berezin integrals can be realized in the high dimensional limit as integrals in the sense of geometric calculus. We then show how the concepts of spinors and superspace transform into this framework.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2605

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Functional analysis on superspaces (supermanifolds) or graded spaces (46S60) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Applications of Clifford algebras to physics, etc. (15A67)

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