Theory of connections on graded principal bundles
Abstract
The geometry of graded principal bundles is discussed in the framework of graded manifold theory of Kostant-Berezin-Leites. In particular, we prove that a graded principal bundle is globally trivial if and only if it admits a global graded section and, further, that the sheaf of vertical derivations on such a bundle coincides with the graded distribution induced by the action of the structure graded Lie group. This result leads to a natural definition of the graded connection in terms of graded distributions; its relation with Lie superalgebra-valued graded differential forms is also exhibited. Finally, we define the curvature for the graded connection; we prove that the curvature controls the involutivity of the horizontal graded distribution corresponding to the graded connection.
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@article{arxiv.dg-ga/9605006,
title = {Theory of connections on graded principal bundles},
author = {T. Stavracou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:dg-ga/9605006},
year = {2009}
}
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43 pages, no figures, 94Kb tar gzipped file which includes special macros and fonts (prep.tex is the source TeX file), also available via anonymous ftp at ftp://cpt.univ-mrs.fr/ or via gopher gopher://cpt.univ-mrs.fr/