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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Food For Thought Seminar

Jeff Rabin

UCSD

What is a Supermanifold?

Abstract:

\indent Ask a physicist. You will be told that it's a manifold with some anticommuting coordinates. I will explain this cryptic answer by addressing the following natural questions. (1) What does this mean? That is, in what mathematical context is it meaningful? (2) Why would anyone want to do this? That is, what applications does it have?

November 17, 2011

10:00 AM

AP&M 7321

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