On the Construction of $\mathbb{Z}_2^n-$Supergrassmannians as Homogeneous $\mathbb{Z}_2^n-$Superspaces
Mohammad Mohammadi, Saad Varsaie

TL;DR
This paper constructs $ $-supergrassmannians as homogeneous $ $-superspaces by gluing superdomains, describing the action of the super Lie group $GL( extbf{m})$, and proving transitivity and local chart gluing.
Contribution
It provides an explicit construction of $ $-supergrassmannians as homogeneous superspaces with detailed group action descriptions.
Findings
Constructed $ $-supergrassmannians via superdomain gluing.
Described the $GL( extbf{m})$ action explicitly in functor of points.
Proved the transitivity of the group action and local chart gluing.
Abstract
In this paper, we construct the supergrassmannians by gluing of the superdomains and give an explicit description of the action of the super Lie group on the supergrassmannian in the functor of points language. In particular, we give a concrete proof of the transitively of this action, and the gluing of the local charts of the supergrassmannian.
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TopicsAlgebraic structures and combinatorial models Β· Advanced Algebra and Geometry Β· Advanced Topics in Algebra
On the Construction of Supergrassmannians as Homogeneous Superspaces1112010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 58A50; Secondary 20N99.
Mohammad Mohammadi
Department of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), No. 444, Prof. Yousef Sobouti Blvd. P. O. Box 45195-1159 Zanjan Iran, Postal Code 45137-66731
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Saad Varsaie
Department of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), No. 444, Prof. Yousef Sobouti Blvd. P. O. Box 45195-1159 Zanjan Iran, Postal Code 45137-66731
Abstract.
In this paper, we construct the supergrassmannians by gluing of the superdomains and give an explicit description of the action of the super Lie group on the supergrassmannian in the functor of points language. In particular, we give a concrete proof of the transitively of this action, and the gluing of the local charts of the supergrassmannian.
Keywords: Super Lie group, Homogeneous superspace, Supermanifold, Supergrassmannian
Introduction
There is growing interest in studying generalized supergeometry, that is, geometry of graded manifolds where the grading group is not , but . The foundational aspects of the theory of supermanifolds were recently studied in [6], [7], [8] and [9]. This generalization is used in string theory and parastatistics in physics, see [1], [16]. Also in Mathematics, there exist many examples of graded commutative algebras: quaternions and Clifford algebras, the algebra of Deligne differential superforms, etc. Moreover, there exist interesting examples of supermanifolds. In this paper, we study the supergrassmannians as supermanifolds and their constructions.
In the context of supermanifolds, homogeneous superspaces have been defined and investigated extensively using the functor of points approach in [3], [4] and [5]. In this paper, we show that supergrassmannians are homogeneous, c.f. section 2. To this end, we show that the super Lie group , c.f. section 1, acts transitively on supergrassmannian , c.f. section 2.
In the first section, we recall briefly all necessary basic concepts such as grading spaces, supermanifolds, super Lie groups and an action of a super Lie group on a supermanifold. we use these concepts in the case of supergeometry in [3] and [5].
In section 2, we study the supergrassmannians extensively. The supergrassmannians are introduced by Manin in [11], but here by developing an efficient formalism, we fill in the details of the proof of this statement.
In section 3, by a functor of points approach, an action of the super Lie group on the supergrassmannian is defined by gluing local actions. Finally it is shown that this action is transitive.
1. Preliminaries
Let be the fold Cartesian product of From now on, we set and by and we mean and respectively such that . Consider the bi-additive map
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The even subgroup consists of elements such that and the set consists of odd elements such that
One can fix an ordering on ; based on this ordering, each even element is smaller than each odd element. Given two even (odd) elements and , the first one is smaller than the second one for the lexicographical order, if , for the first i where and differ. For example, the lexicographical ordering on is
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Obviously, with lexicographical ordering is totally ordered set. Thus it may be diagrammed as an ascending chain as follows
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In the supergeometry, the sign rules between generators of the algebra are completely determined by their parity. One can define a grading by (1) such that will be a sign rule what will lead to supergeometry. Also, it has been shown that any other sign rule for finite number of coordinates is obtained from the above sine rule for sufficiently big See [6] for more details.
1.1. supergeometry
The graded objects like superlagebras, super ringed spaces, superdomains and supermanifolds have been studied in [6], [8] and [9]. In the following, we recall the necessary definitions from these references.
By definition, a super vector space is a direct sum of vector spaces over a field (with characteristic [math]). For each the elements of is called homogeneous with degree If be a homogeneous element of then the degree of is represented by
A superring is a ring such that its multiplication satisfy A superring is called commutative, if for any homogeneous elements
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Example 1.1**.**
Let be a ring and be indeterminates with degree respectively such that
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Then is the commutative associative unital algebra of formal series in the with coefficients in
By a super ringed space, we mean a pair where is a topological space and is a sheaf of commutative graded rings on . A morphism between two super ringed spaces and is a pair such that is a continuous map and is a homomorphism of weight zero between the sheaves of commutative graded rings. Let the -ringed space
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is called -superdomain such that is the sheaf of smooth functions on . Also for each open ,
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is the commutative associative unital superalgebra of formal power series in formal variables βs of degrees which commuting as follows:
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By evaluation of at , denoted by , we mean .
A -supermanifold of dimension is a -ringed space that is locally isomorphic to . In addition is a second countable and Hausdorff topological space. A morphism between two -supermanifolds and is a local morphism between two local -ringed spaces.
Analogous with supergeometry, one can obtain a supermanifold by gluing superdomains. We will use this method to construct the supergrassmannian as a supermanifold in section 2.
1.2. Category theory
By a locally small category, we mean a category such that the collection of all morphisms between any two of its objects is a set. Let , are objects in a category and are morphisms between these objects. An universal pair is called equalizer if the following diagram commutes:
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i.e., and also for each object and any morphism which satisfy , there exists unique morphism such that . If equalizer existed then it is unique up to isomorphism. For example, in the category of sets, which is denoted by SET, the equalizer of two morphisms is the set together with the inclusion map
Let be a locally small category, and be an object in . By -points of , we mean for any . The functor of points of is a functor which is denoted by and is defined as follows:
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where A functor is called representable if there exists an object in such that and are isomorphic. Then one may say that is represented by . The category of functors from to SET is denoted by . It is shown that the category of all representable functors from to SET is a subcategory of .
Corresponding to each morphism , there exists a natural transformation from to . This transformation corresponds the mapping with for each . Now set:
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Obviously, is a covariant functor and it is called Yoneda embedding.
Lemma 1.2**.**
The Yoneda embedding is full and faithful functor, i.e. the map
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is a bijection for each
Proof.
see [5]. β
Thus according to this lemma, are isomorphic if and only if their functor of points are isomorphic. The Yoneda embedding is an equivalence between and a subcategory of representable functors in since not all functors are representable.
1.3. super Lie groups
Let ZSM be the category of supermanifolds. This is a category whose objects are supermanifolds whose morphisms are morphisms between two supermanifolds. Obviously, ZSM is a locally small category and has finite product property. In addition it has a terminal object , that is the constant sheaf on a singleton .
Let be a supermanifold and . There is a map where:
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So, for each supermanifold , one can define the morphism
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as a composition of and the unique morphism .
By super Lie group, we mean a group-object in the category ZSM. More precisely, it is defined as follows:
Definition 1.3**.**
A super Lie group is a supermanifold together with the morphisms of weight zero called multiplication, inverse and unit morphisms respectively, such that the following equations are satisfied
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where is identity on and is the composition of and the unique morphism . In addition is the diagonal map on .
Note that, there is a Lie group associated with each super Lie group. Indeed, let be a super Lie group and is reduced manifold associated to and are reduced morphisms associated to respectively. Since is a functor, is a group-object of the category of differentiable manifolds.
Remark 1.4*.*
Simply, one can show that any super Lie group induced a group structure over its -points for any arbitrary supermanifold . This means that the functor takes values in category of groups. Moreover, for any other supermanifold and morphism , the corresponding map is a homomorphism of groups. One can also define a super Lie group as a representable functor from category ZSM to category of groups. If such functor represented by a supermanifold , then the maps are obtained by Yonedaβs lemma and the maps and .
Remark 1.5*.*
Consider the superdomain and an arbitrary supermanifold . Let , , , be degree elements. By Theorem 6.8 in [6] (Fundamental theorem of -morphisms), One may define a unique morphism , by setting where is a global coordinates system on . Thus may be represented by .
Example 1.6**.**
Let be a global coordinates system on superdomain . Let be an arbitrary supermanifold, we define:
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where , It follows that with is a common group. Thus, by Remark 1.4, is a super Lie group.
Analogously, one may show that the supersuperdomain is a super Lie group.
Example 1.7**.**
Let be a finite dimensional -super vector space of dimension and let be a basis of for which the elements are of weight for . Consider the functor from the category ZSM to GRP the category of groups which maps each seupermanifold to the group of zero weight automorphisms of . Consider the supermanifold \textbf{End}(V)=\Big{(}\prod_{i}End(V_{i}),\mathcal{A}\Big{)} where is the following sheaf
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where Let be a linear transformation on defined by , then is a basis for . If is the corresponding dual basis, then it may be considered as a global coordinates on . Let be the open subsupermanifold of corresponding to the open set:
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Thus, we have
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It can be shown that the functor may be represented by . For this, one may show that . To this end, first, note that
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It is known that each may be uniquely determined by where , see [15]. Now set . One may consider as an element of . Obviously is a bijection from to . Thus the supermanifold is a super Lie group and denoted it by or if . Therefore - points of are the invertible supermatrices of weight zero
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where the elements of the block have degree and the multiplication is the matrix product.
Let , one can define the left and right translation by as
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respectively. One can show that pullbacks of above morphisms are as following
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One may also use the language of functor of points to describe two morphisms (1.4) and (1.5).
Definition 1.8**.**
Let be a supermanifold and let be a super Lie group with and as its multiplication, inverse and unit morphisms respectively. A morphism is called a (right) action of on , if the following diagrams commute
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where are as above. In this case, we say G acts from right on . One can define left action analogously.
According to the above diagrams, one has:
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By Yoneda lemma (Lemma 1.2), one may consider, equivalently, the action of G as a natural transformation:
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Thus for each supermanifold , the morphism is an action of group on the set . This means:
2. 2.
Let define
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where and are the morphism (1.2) for and respectively. Equivalently, these maps may be defined as
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One may easily show that has constant rank(see Proposition 8.1.5 in [5], for more details). Before next definition, we recall that a morphism between supermanifolds, say is a submersion at , if is surjective and is called submersion, if it is surjective at each point. (For more details, refer to [15], [5]). Also is a surjective submersion, if in addition is surjective.
Definition 1.9**.**
Let acts on with action . The action is called transitive, if there exist such that is a surjective submersion.
It is shown that, if is a submersion for one , then it is a submersion for all point in . The following proposition will be required in the last section.
Proposition 1.10**.**
Let be an action. Then is transitive if and only if for a is surjective, where is the dimension of and
Proof.
The proof is the same as the proof of proposition 9.1.4 in [5] with appropriate modifications. β
Definition 1.11**.**
Let be a super Lie group and let be an action of on supermanifold . By stabilizer of we mean a supermanifold equalizing the diagram
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Proposition 1.12**.**
Let be an action, then
The following diagram admits an equalizer
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* is a *subsuper Lie group of . 3. 3.
The functor is represented by , where is the stabilizer in of the action of on .
Proof.
The proof is the same as the proof of proposition 8.4.7 in [5] with appropriate modifications. β
We end this section with the next proposition which is a straightforward generalization of the proposition 6.5 in [3].
Proposition 1.13**.**
Suppose acts transitively on . There exists a -equivariant isomorphism
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2. -supergrassmannian
Supergrassmannians are introduced by Manin in [11] and the authors have studied them in more details in [2] and [12]. In this section, we introduce the -supergrassmannian which is denoted by or in short. For convenience from now, we set
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and also decompose any supermatrix into blocks
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such that the elements of block have degree . By a -supergrassmannian, , we mean a -supermanifold which is constructed by gluing - superdomains \mathbb{R}^{\overrightarrow{\beta}}=\Big{(}\mathbb{R}^{\beta_{0}},\,C^{\infty}_{\mathbb{R}^{\beta_{0}}}(-)[[\xi_{1}^{1},\ldots,\xi_{1}^{\beta_{1}},\xi_{2}^{1},\ldots,\xi_{2}^{\beta_{2}},\ldots,\xi_{\textbf{q}}^{1},\ldots,\xi_{\textbf{q}}^{\beta_{\textbf{q}}}]]\Big{)} as follows:
For let be a sorted subset in ascending order with elements. The elements of are called -degree indices. The multi-index is called -index. Set , where
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Let each -superdomain be labeled by a supermatrix of weight zero, say , with blocks each of which is a matrix. In addition, except for columns with indices in , which together form a minor denoted by , the matrix is filled from up to down and left to right by , the free generators of each of them sits in a block with same degree. This process impose an ordering on the set of generators. In addition is supposed to be the identity matrix.
For example, consider . Then let , so is a -index. In this case the set of generators of is
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and is:
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Note that, in this example,
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is corresponding total ordered set of generators.
By we mean the set of all points of , on which is invertible. Obviously is an open set. The transition map between the two -superdomains and is denoted by
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Note that where is an isomorphism between sheaves determined by defining on each entry of as a rational expression which appears as the corresponding entry provided by the pasting equation
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where is a matrix which is remained after omitting . Clearly, the left hand side of (2.2) is defined whenever is invertible. The morphism induces the continuous map (in the case , see [13], lemma 3.1).
For example in suppose
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so are -indices. We have:
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The maps are gluing morphisms. In fact, a straightforward computation shows the following proposition holds.
Proposition 2.1**.**
Let g_{{}_{\overrightarrow{\textbf{I}},\overrightarrow{\textbf{J}}}}=\big{(}\overline{g}_{{}_{\overrightarrow{\textbf{I}},\overrightarrow{\textbf{J}}}},g^{*}_{{}_{\overrightarrow{\textbf{I}},\overrightarrow{\textbf{J}}}}\big{)} be as above, then
** 2. 2.
** 3. 3.
**
Proof.
For first equality, note that the map is obtained from the following equality:
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where the matrix is identity. So is defined by the following equality:
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This shows the first equality. For second equality, let be an another -index, so is obtained by the following equality:
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One may see that is obtained by following equality:
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For left side, we have
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Accordingly the map is obtained by and it shows that this map is identity. For third equality, it is sufficient to show that the map is obtained from
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This case obtains from case analogously. β
So the sheaves may be glued through the to construct the supergrassmannian . Indeed, according to [15], the conditions of the above proposition are necessary and sufficient for gluing.
3. Supergrassmannian as homogeneous superspace
Let be a super Lie group and be a closed sub super Lie group of . One can define a supermanifold structure on the topological space as follows:
Let and be the super Lie algebras corresponding with and . For each , let be the left invariant vector field on associated with . For a subalgebra of set:
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On the other hand, for any open subset set:
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where is the right translation by in (1.5). If is connected, then . Let be the natural projection. For each open subset , the structure sheaf is defined as following
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where One can show that is a sheaf on and the ringed space is a superdomain locally (See [3] for more details). So is a supermanifold and is called homogeneous superspace. In this section, we want to show that the supergrassmannian is a homogeneous superspace. According to the section 1, it is enough to find a super Lie group which acts on transitively. For this, we need the following remark and the next lemma
Remark 3.1*.*
Let be an element of where is an arbitrary index. One can correspond to a supermatrix called as follows: Except for columns with indices in , the blocks are filled from up to down and left to right by βs where
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according to the ordering (2.1), where is the global coordinates of the superdomain . The columns with indices in form an identity matrix.
Lemma 3.2**.**
Let be a -point of and be a global coordinates of with ordering as the one introduced in (2.1). If is the supermatrix corresponding to , then the supermatrix corresponding to \big{(}g_{{}_{\overrightarrow{\textbf{I}},\overrightarrow{\textbf{J}}}}\big{)}_{{}_{T}}(\psi) is as follows:
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where is introduced in Remark 3.1.
Proof.
Note that may be represented by a supermatrix as follows:
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where is the label of Let and . If be a coordinates system on , then one has
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Then
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For second equality one may note that is a homomorphism of superalgebras and is a rational function of . Obviously, the last expression is the -entry of the matrix D_{\overrightarrow{\textbf{I}}}\Big{(}(M_{\overrightarrow{\textbf{I}}}[B]_{\overrightarrow{\textbf{J}}})^{-1}[B]_{\overrightarrow{\textbf{J}}}\Big{)}. This completes the proof. β
Theorem 3.3**.**
The super Lie group acts on supergrassmannian .
Proof.
First, we have to define a morphism . For this, by Yoneda lemma, it is sufficient to define :
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for each supermanifold or equivalently define
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where is a fixed arbitrary element in . For brevity, we denote by A. One may consider , as the set of invertible supermatrices with entries in , but there is not such a description for , because it is not a superdomain. We know each supergrassmanian is constructed by gluing superdomains (c.f. section 2), so one may define the actions of on superdomains and then shows that these actions glued to construct .
For defining A, it is needed to refine the covering . Set
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where is the matrix form of the fixed arbitrary element in , see [5] and [15]. One can show that is a covering for and \textbf{A}\Big{(}U_{\overrightarrow{\textbf{I}}}^{\overrightarrow{\textbf{J}}}(T)\Big{)}\subseteq U_{\overrightarrow{\textbf{J}}}(T). Now consider all maps
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where, is as above. We have to show that these maps may be glued to construct a global map on . For this, it is sufficient to show that the following diagram commutes:
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where \big{(}g_{\overrightarrow{\textbf{I}},\overrightarrow{\textbf{J}}}\big{)}_{{}_{T}} is the induced map from on -points. The following proposition is used to show commutativity of the above diagram. β
Proposition 3.4**.**
The last diagram commutes.
Proof.
We have to show that
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for arbitrary -indices Let be an arbitrary element. One has , so
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From left side of (3.1), we have:
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β For right side of equation (3.1), we have
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This shows that the above diagram commutes. β
Therefore acts on with action . Now it is needed to show that this action is transitive.
Theorem 3.5**.**
* acts on transitively.*
Proof.
By proposition 1.10, it is sufficient to show that the map
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is surjective, where is dimension of and Let
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be an element and be the matrices corresponding to subspaces respectively. As an element of , one may represent , as follows
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where is an arbitrary supermanifold. For surjectivity, let
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be an arbitrary element. According to (1.3), we have to show that there exists an element such that . Since the Lie group acts on manifold transitively, then there exists an invertible matrix such that . In addition, the equations have solutions since . Let be solutions of these equations respectively. Clearly, One can see
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satisfy in the equation . So is surjective. By Proposition 1.10, acts on transitively. β
Thus according to Proposition 1.13, is a homogeneous superspace.
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