Overview
- Provides a detailed introduction to differential geometry on supermanifolds, including bundles, connections and integration
- Focuses on super Riemann surfaces, supergeometric analogues of Riemann surfaces motivated by theoretical physics
- Explains the relation between supergeometry and supersymmetry for the superconformal action on super Riemann surfaces
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 2230)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Super Differential Geometry
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About this book
This book treats the two-dimensional non-linear supersymmetric sigma model or spinning string from the perspective of supergeometry. The objective is to understand its symmetries as geometric properties of super Riemann surfaces, which are particular complex super manifolds of dimension 1|1.
The first part gives an introduction to the super differential geometry of families of super manifolds. Appropriate generalizations of principal bundles, smooth families of complex manifolds and integration theory are developed.
The second part studies uniformization, U(1)-structures and connections on Super Riemann surfaces and shows how the latter can be viewed as extensions of Riemann surfaces by a gravitino field. A natural geometric action functional on super Riemann surfaces is shown to reproduce the action functional of the non-linear supersymmetric sigma model using a component field formalism. The conserved currents of this action can be identified as infinitesimal deformationsof the super Riemann surface. This is in surprising analogy to the theory of Riemann surfaces and the harmonic action functional on them.This volume is aimed at both theoretical physicists interested in a careful treatment of the subject and mathematicians who want to become acquainted with the potential applications of this beautiful theory.
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Book Title: Supergeometry, Super Riemann Surfaces and the Superconformal Action Functional
Authors: Enno Keßler
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13758-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13757-1Published: 29 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13758-8Published: 28 August 2019
Series ISSN: 0075-8434
Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 305
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations
Topics: Differential Geometry, Mathematical Physics, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory