Ectoplasm has no topology

In a new approach to the theory of integration over Wess-Zumino supermanifolds, we suggest that a fundamental principle is their consistency with an "Ethereal Conjecture" that asserts the topology of the supermanifold must be generated essentially from its bosonic submanifold. This naturally leads to a theory of "ectoplasmic" integration based on super p-forms. One consequence of this approach is that the derivation of "density projection operators" becomes trivial in a number of supergravity theories. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V.