Connections on vector bundles over super Riemann surfaces

Abstract

We show that the globally inequivalent off-shell N=1 super Yang-Mills theories in two dimensions classify the superholomorphic structures on vector bundles over super Riemann surfaces. More precisely, there is a one-to-one correspondence between superholomorphic structures on vector bundles over super Riemann surfaces and unitary connections satisfying certain curvature constraints. These curvature constraints are the canonical constraints used in superspace formulations of super Yang-Mills theories, but arise in our considerations as integrability requirements for the local existence of solutions to certain differential equations. Finally, we discuss the relationship of this work with some aspects of Witten's twistor-like transform.