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Splitting theorem for $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-supermanifolds

Differential Geometry 2017-01-17 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Smooth Z2n\mathbb{Z}_2^n-supermanifolds have been introduced and studied recently. The corresponding sign rule is given by the "scalar product" of the involved Z2n\mathbb{Z}_2^n-degrees. It exhibits interesting changes in comparison with the sign rule using the parity of the total degree. With the new rule, nonzero degree even coordinates are not nilpotent, and even (resp., odd) coordinates do not necessarily commute (resp., anticommute) pairwise. The classical Batchelor-Gawcedzki theorem says that any smooth supermanifold is diffeomorphic to the "superization" ΠE\Pi E of a vector bundle EE. It is also known that this result fails in the complex analytic category. Hence, it is natural to ask whether an analogous statement goes through in the category of Z2n\mathbb{Z}_2^n-supermanifolds with its local model made of formal power series. We give a positive answer to this question.

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@article{arxiv.1602.03671,
  title  = {Splitting theorem for $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-supermanifolds},
  author = {Tiffany Covolo and Janusz Grabowski and Norbert Poncin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03671},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

12 pages, substantial text overlap with arXiv:1408.2939, minor corrections and some explanations addedd; to appear in J. Geom. Phys

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