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Berezinian expansion and super exterior powers

Differential Geometry 2025-06-23 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In the supergeometric setting, the classical identification between differential forms of top degree and volume elements for integration breaks down. To address this, generalized notions of differential forms were introduced: pseudo-differential forms and integral forms (Bernstein-Leites), and rsr|s-forms (Voronov-Zorich). The Baranov-Schwarz transformation transforms pseudo-differential forms into rsr|s-forms. Also, integral rr-forms are isomorphic to rmr|m-forms for a supermanifold of dimension nmn|m, yet the explicit construction of rsr|s-forms for arbitrary ss remains elusive. In this paper, we show that 111|1-forms at a point can be realized as closed differential forms on a super projective space Pm1n\mathbb{P}^{m-1|n}. We address a related problem involving the expansion of Ber(E+zA)\mathop{\mathrm{Ber}}(E + z A) for a linear operator on an nmn|m-dimensional space VV, which generates supertraces of the representations Λrs(A)\Lambda^{r|s}(A) for s=0s=0 and s=ms=m as the coefficients of the expansions near zero and near infinity, respectively. We demonstrate that the intermediate expansions in the annular regions between consecutive poles encode supertraces of representations on certain vector spaces that will be candidates for Λrs(V)\Lambda^{r|s}(V) for 0<s<m0 < s < m.

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@article{arxiv.2506.16549,
  title  = {Berezinian expansion and super exterior powers},
  author = {Maheshan Ekanayaka and Ekaterina Shemyakova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16549},
  year   = {2025}
}