Graded
Dvemntial
Calculua
391
superfield expansion
where the
x's
are the even (Grassmann) coordinates, the
6's
are the odd ones,
and the dependence of the coefficient functions
f...(z)
on the even variables
is
fixed
by
their values for real arguments.
We
shall denote by
G(S)
and
G(U)
the graded ring of supersmooth
BL-
valued functions on
S
and
U
c
S,
respectively.
The
class
of supermanifolds which, up to now, turns out to be relevant
for
applications in physics
is
given by the De Witt supermanifolds. They are
defined
in
terms
of
a
coarse topology on
Bryn,
called the
De
Witt
to~~ogy~
whose open
sets
are the counterimag~ of open sets in
R"
through the body
map
nm$n
:
B;'"
+
9".
An
(m,n)
supermanifold is De Witt
if
it
has
an
atlas such that the images
of
the coordinate maps are open in the De Witt
topology.
A
De Witt (m,n)-supermanifold
is
a
locally trivial fiber bundle
over
an
ordinary m-manifold
So
(called the body of
S)
with
a
vector fiber.Ig7
This
is not a surprise the fact that, modulo some technicalities, a
De
Witt
supermanifold can be identified with
a
Berezin-Konstant ~upermanifold.'~~~~
The graded tangent space
TS
is constructed in the following manner. For
each
I
E
S,
let
g(x)
be the germs
of
functions at
x
and denote by
TxS
the
space of graded BL-linear maps
X
:
B(x)
+
BL
that satisfy Leibnitz rule.
Then,
TxS
is
a
free graded BL-module of dimension
(m,n),
and the disjoint
union
UsesTxS
can be given the structure
of
a
rank
(m, n)
super vector bundle
over
S,
denoted by
TS.
The sections
X(S)
of
TS
are a graded S;(S)-module
and are identified with the graded Lie algebra
DerG(S)
of derivations of
G'(S).
Derivations
(or
vector fields) are said to be even (or odd) if they are even
(or
odd)
as
maps (satisfying in addition
a
graded Leibnitz rule) from
O(S)
-+
G(S).
A local basis is given by
(16.3)
Remark
27
~n~~s~ e~~~~&~t~~ stated, by
using
a
~artia~ d~~vativ~ we ~ha~l
a~~a~~ mean
a
left
~e~ivutzve, na~e~y
a
de~vat~v~
~ct~ng
from
left.
In
general,
if
ti
=
(xj,@,"),
when acting on any ~omogeneous jun~tion
f
E
B(s),
Zejt
and