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Publications and source records attributed to Francois Gieres.
Nous presentons une introduction aux concepts de la supersymetrie par l'intermediaire de trois exemples: (i) Mecanique quantique supersymetrique, (ii) Superalgebres de Lie, (iii) Superconnexions de Quillen. Les points communs a toutes ces notions sont soulignes et des applications sont indiquees. En particulier nous esquissons la demonstration du theoreme de Gauss et Bonnet d'apres Patodi et la demonstration des inegalites de Morse d'apres Witten.
Starting from superdifferential operators in an $N=1$ superfield formulation, we present a systematic prescription for the derivation of classical $N=1$ and $N=2$ super W-algebras by imposing a zero-curvature condition on the connection of the corresponding first order system. We illustrate the procedure on the first non-trivial example (beyond the $N=1$ superconformal algebra) and also comment on the relation with the Gelfand-Dickey construction of $W$-algebras.
For a generic value of the central charge, we prove the holomorphic factorization of partition functions for free superconformal fields which are defined on a compact Riemann surface without boundary. The partition functions are viewed as functionals of the Beltrami coefficients and their fermionic partners which variables parametrize superconformal classes of metrics.
We study superdifferential operators of order $2n+1$ which are covariant with respect to superconformal changes of coordinates on a compact super Riemann surface. We show that all such operators arise from super Möbius covariant ones. A canonical matrix representation is presented and applications to classical super W algebras are discussed.
We present explicit expressions for the Maurer-Cartan forms of the superdiffeomorphism group associated to a super Riemann surface. As an application to superconformal field theory, we use these forms to evaluate the effective action for the factorized superdiffeomorphism anomaly.
Starting from the Wess-Zumino action associated to the super Weyl anomaly, we determine the local counterterm which allows to pass from this anomaly to the chirally split superdiffeomorphism anomaly (as defined on a compact super Riemann surface without boundary). The counterterm involves the graded extension of the Verlinde functional and the results can be applied to the study of holomorphic factorization of partition functions in superconformal field theory.