Calogero Operator and Lie Superalgebras

We construct a supersymmetric analogue of the Calogero operator $\mathcal S\mathcal L$ which depends on the parameter $k$. This analogue is related to the root system of the Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak {gl}(n|m)$. It becomes the standard Calogero operator for $m = 0$ and becomes the operator constructed by Veselov, Chalykh, and Feigin up to changing the variables and the parameter $k$ for $m = 1$. For $k = 1$ and 1/2, the operator $\mathcal S\mathcal L$ is the radial part of the second-order Laplace operator for the symmetric superspaces corresponding to the respective pairs $(\mathfrak {gl}\oplus \mathfrak {gl}, \mathfrak {gl})$, $(\mathfrak {gl},\mathfrak {osp})$. We show that for any m and n, the supersymmetric analogues of the Jack polynomials constructed by Kerov, Okounkov, and Olshanskii are eigenfunctions of the operator $\mathcal S\mathcal L$. For $k = 1$ and 1/2, the supersymmetric analogues of the Jack polynomials coincide with the spherical functions on the above superspaces. We also study the algebraic analogue of the Berezin integral.