supergravity

Co-founder of string theory. Interview by D. Zierler, AIP Oral History Interviews, July 2020 On the NSR superstring: On the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism: Joël Scherk, John Schwarz, Spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry through dimensional reduction, Physics Letters B Volume 82, Issue 1, 12 March 1979, Pages 60-64 (doi:10.1016/0370-2693(79)90425-8) Joël Scherk, John Schwarz: How to get masses from ext…

Eugène Cremmer (1942-2019) Bernard Julia: Eugène Cremmer: 1942-2019, Cern Courier 69 (19 July 2020) [web, web] Introducing D=11 N=1 supergravity: Introducing D=4 N=8 supergravity by KK-reduction of D=11 supergravity on a 7-torus: and noticing the hidden E7 U-duality symemtry: Formulation of D=11 supergravity in superspace (via supergeometry): More on U-duality-covariant D=11 supergravity, includi…

Joël Scherk (1946-1980) In memoriam Joël Scherk Joël Scherk died on May 16, 1980. Although 33 years old, he had made many very important discoveries in dual string theory and supergravity, as will be manifest in this review. It is striking to note how logical and sustained the development of his thinking was. His first important contribution was the renormalization of the one-loop open dual strin…

Relation of Niemeier lattices to heterotic string theory: On D-branes in type 0 string theory: On S-duality in 9D supergravity: On heterotic M-theory on ADE-orbifolds: Michael Faux, Dieter Lüst, Burt Ovrut, Intersecting Orbifold Planes and Local Anomaly Cancellation in M-Theory, Nucl. Phys. B554: 437-483, 1999 (arXiv:hep-th/9903028) Michael Faux, Dieter Lüst, Burt Ovrut, Local Anomaly Cancellatio…

On the Wess-Zumino-Witten model: On D8-branes as black branes in massive type IIA string theory: On S-duality in 9D supergravity: On pp-wave Penrose limits of homogeneous spacetimes: On black holes and black strings in D=5 supergravity:

Tomás Ortín On double dimensional reduction of the M5-brane to the D4-brane: On massive type IIA string theory and its embedding in M-theory via M9-branes: On D8-branes as black branes in massive type IIA string theory: On S-duality in 9D supergravity: Formulation of (Lagrangian densities for) type II supergravity with “democratic”/“pregeometric” RR-fields subject to self-duality: On D9-branes: O…

superalgebra and (synthetic ) supergeometry supergravity in dimension 6 Background on spin representations and supersymmetry: 221 2 (1983) 331-348 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90582-5] Formulation of supergravity on superspace: Moustafa A. Awada, Paul Townsend, Germán Sierra: Six-dimensional simple and extended chiral supergravity in superspace, Class. Quantum Grav. 2 (1985) L85 [doi:10.1088/0264-93…

On generalized Spin(7)-manifolds and M-theory on G₂-manifolds: On G-structures in M-theory: On D=6 supergravity: and in relation to contact geometry: Discussion of Killing spinors on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds: On duality-symmetric abelian Yang-Mills theory (“premetric electromagnetism”) in the generality allowing “U-duality-twists” among several abelian gauge fields, motivated by a…

Early discussion of U-duality-covariant D=11 supergravity (later: “exceptional field theory”): Bernard de Wit, Hermann Nicolai: D = 11 Supergravity With Local Invariance, Nucl. Phys. B 274, 363 (1986) [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(86)90290-7, spire:227409] Bernard de Wit, Hermann Nicolai: Local SU(8) invariance in supergravity, talk at Nuffield Workshop on Supersymmetry and its Applications, 0357 [spire…