Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1992-10-26
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
18 pages, KCL-TH-92-5
Scientific paper
10.1016/0393-0440(93)90073-N
(Replacement because mailer changed `hat' for supercript into something weird. The macro `\sp' has been used in place of the `hat' character in this revised version.) Fermionic Brownian paths are defined as paths in a space para\-metr\-ised by anticommuting variables. Stochastic calculus for these paths, in conjunction with classical Brownian paths, is described; Brownian paths on supermanifolds are developed and applied to establish a Feynman-Kac formula for the twisted Laplace-Beltrami operator on differential forms taking values in a vector bundle. This formula is used to give a proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem which is rigorous while being closely modelled on the supersymmetric proofs in the physics literature.
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