Differential operators on the supercircle S1|2 and symbol map

Abstract

We consider the supercircle [Formula: see text] equipped with the standard contact structure. The conformal Lie superalgebra [Formula: see text] acts on [Formula: see text] as the Lie superalgebra of contact vector fields; it contains the M[Formula: see text]bius superalgebra [Formula: see text]. We study the space of linear differential operators on weighted densities as a module over [Formula: see text]. We introduce the canonical isomorphism between this space and the corresponding space of symbols. This result allows us to give, in contrast to the classical setting, a classification of the [Formula: see text]-modules [Formula: see text] of linear differential operators of order [Formula: see text] acting on the superspaces of weighted densities. This work is the simplest superization of a result by Gargoubi and Ovsienko [Modules of differential operators on the real line, Funct. Anal. Appl. 35(1) (2001) 13–18.]