Abstract

This note addresses the construction of a notion of parallel transport along superpaths arising from the concept of a superconnection on a vector bundle over a manifold M. A superpath in M is, loosely speaking, a path in M together with an odd vector field in M along the path. We also develop a notion of parallel transport associated with a connection (also know as covariant derivative) on a vector bundle over a supermanifold, which is a direct generalization of the classical notion of parallel transport for connections over manifolds.

Keywords

superconnections, parallel transport, supermanifolds, supersymmetric field theories

Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary: 55N15, 53C05

Secondary: 81T60

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