Supermanifolds
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This is an updated and expanded second edition of a successful and well-reviewed text presenting a detailed exposition of the modern theory of supermanifolds, including a rigorous account of the super-analogs of all the basic structures of ordinary manifold theory. The exposition opens with the theory of analysis over supernumbers (Grassman variables), Berezin integration, supervector spaces and the superdeterminant. This basic material is then applied to the theory of supermanifolds, with an account of super-analogs of Lie derivatives, connections, metric, curvature, geodesics, Killing flows, conformal groups, etc. The book goes on to discuss the theory of super Lie groups, super Lie algebras, and invariant geometrical structures on coset spaces. Complete descriptions are given of all the simple super Lie groups. The book then turns to applications. Chapter 5 contains an account of the Peierals bracket for superclassical dynamical systems, super Hilbert spaces, path integration for fermionic quantum systems, and simple models of Bose–Fermi supersymmetry. The sixth and final chapter, which is new in this revised edition, examines dynamical systems for which the topology of the configuration supermanifold is important. A concise but complete account is given of the pathintegral derivation of the Chern–Gauss–Bonnet formula for the Euler–Poincaré characteristic of an ordinary manifold, which is based on a simple extension of a point particle moving freely in this manifold to a supersymmetric dynamical system moving in an associated supermanifold. Many exercises are included to complement the text.
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9780521423779
EAN: 9780521423779
Publisher Date: 19 Jun 1992
Bood Data Readership Text: Professional & Vocational
Dewey: 530.15
File Size: 000001
Height: 228 mm
Illustrations: references, index
LCCN: 91011070
No of Pages: 428
Pagination: 428 pages, references, index
Returnable: N
Spine Width: 24 mm
UK Availability: GXC
Year Of Publication: 1992
ISBN-10: 0521423775
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Paperback
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Edition: 2 Rev ed
Gardner Classification Code: K00
Illustration: Y
Language: English
MediaMail: Y
Number of Items: 01
PrintOnDemand: Y
Series Title: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
Star Rating: 0
Width: 152 mm