Symmetries of supergeometries related to nonholonomic superdistributions

DOI10.1007/S00031-022-09706-YMaRDI QIDQ6152214zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Boris Kruglikov, Andrea Santi, Dennis The

Publication date 11 March 2024

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04378

Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras (17Bxx) Global differential geometry (53Cxx) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50)

Abstract: We extend Tanaka theory to the context of supergeometry and obtain an upper bound on the supersymmetry dimension of geometric structures related to strongly regular bracket-generating distributions on supermanifolds and their structure reductions.

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\textit{S. Kobayashi} [Transformation groups in differential geometry. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag (1972; Zbl 0246.53031)] claims that \(G\)-structures of finite type have finite-dimensional symmetry algebras and automorphism groups, and that the dimension of both is bounded via Sternberg prolongation [Zbl 0129.13102], which applies to the class of Cartan geometries that allow higher order reductions of the structure group. Similarly, the Tanaka prolongation [\textit{N. Tanaka}, J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 10, 1--82 (1970; Zbl 0206.50503)] dimension bounds the symmetry dimension in the case of strongly regular bracket-generating nonholomorphic distributions and related geometric structures [\textit{K. Yamaguchi}, Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 22, 413--494 (1993; Zbl 0812.17018)]. An analogue of the Tanaka prolongation in the super-setting is well-established, being used by \textit{V. G. Kac} [Adv. Math. 26, 8--96 (1977; Zbl 0366.17012)] in his classification obliged to the ideas of Weisfeiler filtration [\textit{B. Yu. Veĭsfeĭler}, Funct. Anal. Appl. 2, 88--89 (1968; Zbl 0245.17006); translation from Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 2, No. 1, 94--95 (1968)]. This paper exploits this algebraic Tanaka-Weisfeiler prolongation to construct a super-analogue of the Cartan-Tanaka frame bundle, with normalization conditions induced from the generalized Spencer complexes, which in turn implies a bound on the dimension of the symmetry superalgebra. The synopsis of the paper goes as follows. \begin{itemize} \item[\S 2] introduces the main tools for working with geometric structures on supermanifolds, showing that the main ideas behind the classical results can carry over to the super-setting. \item[\S 3] recalls the algebraic prolongation on the lines of Tanaka-Weifeiler, constructing the prolonged frame bundle with an absolute parallelism. One of the main technical features is the geometric realization as supermanifolds of the sheaves of frames in [\textit{D. V. Alekseevsky} et al., J. Geom. Phys. 26, No. 1--2, 37--50 (1998; Zbl 0952.58007)] in the context of \(G\)-structures. \item[\S 4] gives the proofs of the main theorems, using the constructed frame bundles and discussing supersymmetric dimension bounds. The authors exploit a relation of the prolongation to the Lie equation, noting that the symmetry algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\)\ of a filtered geometric structure can be obtained by a filtered subdeformation of \(\mathfrak{g}\). The maximal supersymmetry models are also addressed. \item[\S 5] gives new symmetry bounds, coveing holomorphic supermanifolds rigged out in affine, metric, symplectic, periplectic and projective structures, as well as nonholomorphic ones such as exceptional \(G\left( 3\right) \)-contact structures, equations of super Hilbert-Cartan type, super-Poincaré structures and some scalar odd ordinary differential equations. \end{itemize}

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