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Differential equations with supersymmetric time

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Partial differential equations with supersymmetric (1, 1) time are investigated by means of superspace Cauchy-Kowalewsky and Cartan-Kähler techniques. Theorems for the existence and uniqueness of solutions are found for a particular class of superanalytic functions. The (1, 1) time evolution equations are very important in applications to supersymmetric quantum mechanics and quantum field theory: the square roots of Schrödinger and heat equations. We considered nonlinear analogs of these equations which can be interpreted as square roots of Maslov's nonlinear Schrödinger and heat equations.

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Cianci, R., Khrennikov, A. Differential equations with supersymmetric time. Lett Math Phys 30, 279–290 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00751064

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