Super Riemann Surfaces and the Super Conformal Action Functional

Enno Keßler

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Submission date: 01. Dec. 2015
Pages: 20
published in: Quantum mathematical physics : a bridge between mathematics and physics / F. Finster ... (eds.)
Basel : Birkhäuser, 2016. - P. 401 - 419 
DOI number (of the published article): 10.1007/978-3-319-26902-3_17
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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.