Superstring Field Theory, Superforms and Supergeometry
High Energy Physics - Theory
2018-07-26 v1 Mathematical Physics
Algebraic Geometry
math.MP
Abstract
Inspired by superstring field theory, we study differential, integral, and inverse forms and their mutual relations on a supermanifold from a sheaf-theoretical point of view. In particular, the formal distributional properties of integral forms are recovered in this scenario in a geometrical way. Further, we show how inverse forms extend the ordinary de Rham complex on a supermanifold, thus providing a mathematical foundation of the Large Hilbert Space used in superstrings. Last, we briefly discuss how the Hodge diamond of a supermanifold looks like, and we explicitly compute it for super Riemann surfaces.
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@article{arxiv.1807.09563,
title = {Superstring Field Theory, Superforms and Supergeometry},
author = {R. Catenacci and P. A. Grassi and S. Noja},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09563},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 39pp, no figures