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Decorated Super-Teichm\"uller Space

Geometric Topology 2019-11-06 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We introduce coordinates for a principal bundle ST~(F)S\tilde T(F) over the super Teichmueller space ST(F)ST(F) of a surface FF with s1s\geq 1 punctures that extend the lambda length coordinates on the decorated bundle T~(F)=T(F)×R+s\tilde T(F)=T(F)\times {\mathbb R}_+^s over the usual Teichmueller space T(F)T(F). In effect, the action of a Fuchsian subgroup of PSL(2,R)PSL(2,{\mathbb R}) on Minkowski space R2,1{\mathbb R}^{2,1} is replaced by the action of a super Fuchsian subgroup of OSp(12)OSp(1|2) on the super Minkowski space R2,12{\mathbb R}^{2,1|2}, where OSp(12)OSp(1|2) denotes the orthosymplectic Lie supergroup, and the lambda lengths are extended by fermionic invariants of suitable triples of isotropic vectors in R2,12{\mathbb R}^{2,1|2}. As in the bosonic case, there is the analogue of the Ptolemy transformation now on both even and odd coordinates as well as an invariant even two-form on ST~(F)S\tilde T(F) generalizing the Weil-Petersson Kaehler form. This finally solves a problem posed in Yuri Ivanovitch Manin's Moscow seminar some thirty years ago to find the super analogue of decorated Teichmueller theory and provides a natural geometric interpretation in R2,12{\mathbb R}^{2,1|2} for the super moduli of ST~(F)S\tilde T(F).

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@article{arxiv.1509.06302,
  title  = {Decorated Super-Teichm\"uller Space},
  author = {R. C. Penner and Anton M. Zeitlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.06302},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

39 pages, 10 figures, v4: minor changes, to appear in Journal of Differential Geometry

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