Supermanifold
1 Classical manifold
Ordinary manifold
of dimension
is a topological space with a sheaf of commutative algebras called
, satisfying the following
property. Every point has a neighborhood
such that
is the algebra of functions
on some open subset
.
This can be also said in another way:
A manifold structure on a topological space  is a rule which to every small enough open set  associates:
an equivalence class of pairs  where  is an open subset of  and  is a homeomorphism
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Moreover, it is required that, every time when  are two open subsets of  , and  is in the class
associated to  , then  is in the class associated to  .
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2 Supermanifold
A supermanifold structure on a topological space  is a rule which to every small enough open set  associates:
an equivalence class of pairs  where  is a
superdomain of dimension  and  is a homeomorphism
from the body of  to
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Moreover, it is required that, every time when  are two open subsets of  , and  is in the class
associated to  , then  belongs to the class associated to  .
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In other words:
Supermanifold

of dimension

is a topological space (called

) with a sheaf
of
super-commutative algebras called

, satisfying the following property. Each point
of

has a neighborhood

such that

is an algebra of functions
on a superdomain

of dimension

.