On the Cohomology of the Lie Superalgebra of Contact Vector Fields on $S^{1|2}$

Abstract

We investigate the first cohomology space associated with the embedding of the Lie superalgebra $\cK(2)$ of contact vector fields on the (1,2)-dimensional supercircle $S^{1\mid 2}$ in the Lie superalgebra $\cSΨ\cD \cO(S^{1\mid 2})$ of superpseudodifferential operators with smooth coefficients. Following Ovsienko and Roger, we show that this space is ten-dimensional with only even cocycles and we give explicit expressions of the basis cocycles.