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Keywords:
supermanifolds; geodesics; Riemannian metrics; connections
Summary:
Let ${\mathcal{M}}= (M,\mathcal{O}_\mathcal{M})$ be a smooth supermanifold with connection $\nabla$ and Batchelor model $\mathcal{O}_\mathcal{M}\cong \Gamma _{\Lambda E^\ast }$. From $({\mathcal{M}},\nabla )$ we construct a connection on the total space of the vector bundle $E\rightarrow {M}$. This reduction of $\nabla$ is well-defined independently of the isomorphism $\mathcal{O}_\mathcal{M} \cong \Gamma _{\Lambda E^\ast }$. It erases information, but however it turns out that the natural identification of supercurves in ${\mathcal{M}}$ (as maps from $\mathbb{R}^{1|1}$ to $\mathcal{M}$) with curves in $E$ restricts to a 1 to 1 correspondence on geodesics. This bijection is induced by a natural identification of initial conditions for geodesics on ${\mathcal{M}}$, resp. $E$. Furthermore a Riemannian metric on $\mathcal{M}$ reduces to a symmetric bilinear form on the manifold $E$. Provided that the connection on ${\mathcal{M}}$ is compatible with the metric, resp. torsion free, the reduced connection on $E$ inherits these properties. For an odd metric, the reduction of a Levi-Civita connection on ${\mathcal{M}}$ turns out to be a Levi-Civita connection on $E$.
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