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The main facts about complex curves are generalized to superconformal manifolds. The results thus obtained are relevant to the fermion string theory and, in particular, they are useful for computation of determinants of super laplacians which enter the string partition function.
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Rosly, A.A., Schwarz, A.S. & Voronov, A.A. Geometry of superconformal manifolds. Commun.Math. Phys. 119, 129–152 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01218264
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