Integration on noncompact supermanifolds

Rothstein, Mitchell J.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1987-0869418-5

Integration on noncompact supermanifolds
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 299 (1987), 387-396 Request permission

Abstract:

We note that the Berezin integral, which is ill-defined for noncompact supermanifolds, is a distribution with support on the underlying manifold. This leads to the discovery of correction terms in the Berezinian transformation law and thereby eliminates the boundary ambiguities.

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