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Super Riemann surfaces and fatgraphs

Differential Geometry 2023-09-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics Algebraic Geometry Geometric Topology math.MP

Abstract

Our goal is to describe superconformal structures on super Riemann surfaces (SRS), based on data assigned to a fatgraph. We start from the complex structures on punctured (11)(1|1)-supermanifolds, characterizing the corresponding moduli and the deformations using Strebel differentials and certain \v{C}ech cocycles for a specific covering, which we reproduce from a fatgraph data, consisting of U(1)U(1)-graph connection and odd parameters at the vertices. Then we consider dual (11)(1|1)-supermanifolds and related superconformal structures for N=2N=2 super Riemann surfaces. The superconformal structures N=1N=1 SRS are computed as the fixed points of involution on supermoduli space of N=2N=2 SRS.

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@article{arxiv.2307.02706,
  title  = {Super Riemann surfaces and fatgraphs},
  author = {Albert S. Schwarz and Anton M. Zeitlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.02706},
  year   = {2023}
}

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v2: 25 pages, minor revisions

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