Anticommuting variables, fermionic path integrals and supersymmetry

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(93)90073-NzbMATH Open0780.60081arXivhep-th/9210135OpenAlexW3106447478MaRDI QIDQ687765FDOQ687765

Authors: Alice Rogers 

Publication date: 30 January 1994

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

Abstract: (Replacement because mailer changed `hat' for supercript into something weird. The macro `sp' has been used in place of the `hat' character in this revised version.) Fermionic Brownian paths are defined as paths in a space para-metr-ised by anticommuting variables. Stochastic calculus for these paths, in conjunction with classical Brownian paths, is described; Brownian paths on supermanifolds are developed and applied to establish a Feynman-Kac formula for the twisted Laplace-Beltrami operator on differential forms taking values in a vector bundle. This formula is used to give a proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem which is rigorous while being closely modelled on the supersymmetric proofs in the physics literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9210135

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zbMATH Keywords

Feynman-Kac formulaLaplace-Beltrami operatorsupersymmetryAtiyah-Singer index theoremstochastic calculusfermionic Brownian paths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65)

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