Moduli stacks of maps for supermanifolds

Abstract

We consider the moduli problem of stable maps from a Riemann surface into a supermanifold; in twistor-string theory, this is the instanton moduli space. By developing the algebraic geometry of supermanifolds to include a treatment of super-stacks we prove that such moduli problems, under suitable conditions, give rise to Deligne-Mumford superstacks (where all of these objects have natural definitions in terms of super-geometry). We make some observations about the properties of these moduli super-stacks, as well as some remarks about their application in physics and their associated Gromov-Witten theory. © 2013 International Press.