Super Riemann Surfaces and the Super Conformal Action Functional

Enno Keßler ()
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Enno Keßler: Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften

A chapter in Quantum Mathematical Physics, 2016, pp 401-419 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Riemann surfaces are two-dimensional manifolds with a conformal class of metrics. It is well known that the harmonic action functional and harmonic maps are tools to study the moduli space of Riemann surfaces. Super Riemann surfaces are an analogue of Riemann surfaces in the world of super geometry. After a short introduction to super differential geometry we will compare Riemann surfaces and super Riemann surfaces. We will see that super Riemann surfaces can be viewed as Riemann surfaces with an additional field, the gravitino. An extension of the harmonic action functional to super Riemann surfaces is presented and applications to the moduli space of super Riemann surfaces are considered.

Keywords: Super symmetry; Super geometry; Super Riemann surfaces; Non-linear super symmetric sigma model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26902-3_17

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