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Moduli of super Riemann surfaces

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The basic properties of super Riemann surfaces are presented, and their supermoduli spaces are constructed, in a manner suitable for the application of algebro-geometric techniques to string theory.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, State University of New York, 11794, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Claude LeBrun

  2. School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, 08540, Princeton, NJ, USA

    Mitchell Rothstein

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Communicated by L. Alvarez-Gaumé

Supported in part by NSF Grant No. DMS-8704401

Supported in part by NSF Grants No. DMS-8501783 and No. DMS-86107301(1)

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LeBrun, C., Rothstein, M. Moduli of super Riemann surfaces. Commun.Math. Phys. 117, 159–176 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01228415

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