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This volume gathers the contributions of founders, experts and practitioners of supergravity celebrating the 50th anniversary of its birth, discussing the history of the field and its modern applications to high energy physics, mathematics, particle physics and cosmology. Since its discovery in the mid-1970s, fully understanding its symmetries and structures, the physical implications, permitted generalizations and the connections with other theories have been highly nontrivial challenges. Whether supergravity will be proven true by experiments or it remains a mathematical framework, the theory is elegant, intriguing, rich and entertaining. Many agree that it will continue to be an inspiration and theoretical laboratory for quantum gravity, as well as an intellectual achievement that expresses the highest levels of human creativity in our effort to understand the cosmos and its rules. Current and future practitioners, and historians of science, will value both the comprehensive history and future perspectives of the field within.
Contents
Preface Anna Ceresole and Gianguido Dall'Agata; Part I. The Beginnings: 1. History, and the Simplest Proof and the Simplest Model of Supergravity Peter van Nieuwenhuizen; 2. 1976 was a Very Good Year! Reminiscences Daniel Z. Freedman; 3. The Way We Were Sergio Ferrera; 4. N = 8 Supergravity, and Beyond Hermann Nicolai; 5. An Exceptional Story: Symmetries and Dualities between Maximal Supergravity and General Relativity Bernard L. Julia; 6. Matter Couplings in Supergravity: The First 10 Years Antoine van Proeyen; 7. Twisted Compactifications John H. Schwarz; 8. Group Geometric Construction of Supergravity Theories, and their L∞ Algebraic Structure Leonardo Castellani, Ricardo D'Auria and Pietro Fré; 9. Superspace Supergravity Ulf Lindström and Martin Roček; 10. A Personal Reminiscence: Entering the Locally Supersymmetric Domain of Mathicality & How To Thrive Beyond Superspace S. James Gates; 11. A Brief History of Supermembranes Eric A. Bergshoeff, Ergin Sezgin and Paul K. Townsend; 12. From Symmetry to Supersymmetry to Supergravity Elena Castellani; Part II. Structure and properties of SUGRA: 13. The Ultraviolet Problem in Supergravity G. Bossard and K. S. Stelle; 14. Duality Symmetries C. M. Hull; 15. Kaluza-Klein Supergravity 2025 M. J. Duff, B. E. W. Nillson and C. N. Pope; 16. No-scale Supergravity Fabio Zwirner; 17. New (Maximal) Gauged Supergravities Gianluca Inverso and Mario Trigiante; 18. Exceptional Field Theories Henning Samtleben; 19. From G-structures to Supergravity Vacua Alessandro Tomasiello; 20. The Geometry of Hypermultiplets Stefan Vandoren; 21. Non-Linear Supergravity and Inflationary Cosmology Ignatios Antoniadis, Emilian Dudas, Fotis Farakos and Augusto Sagnotti; 22. Attractors in Supergravity Renata Kallosh and Andrei Linde; 23. String Dualities and Modular Symmetries in Supergravity: A Review Niccolò Cribiori and Dieter Lüst; Part III. Holography: 24. Supergravity and the AdS/CFT Correspondence Juan Maldacena; 25. Supergravity and Holography Michela Petrini, Massimo Porrati and Alberto Zaffaroni; 26. Sasaki-Einstein Geometry, GK Geometry and the AdS/CFT Correspondence Jerome P. Gauntlett, Dario Martelli and James Sparks; 27. D = 4, N = 2 Supergravity: An Unconventional Application Laura Andrianopoli; Part IV. Black Holes: 28. Black Hole Solutions in Theories of Supergravity Tomás Ortín; 29. Microstate Geometries Iosef Bena and Nicholas P. Warner; 30. Quantum Black Holes: Supersymmetry and Exact Results Davide Cassani and Sameer Murthy; 31. Black Hole Solutions in Gauged Supergravity Alessandra Gnecchi, Silke Klemm and Chiara Toldo.
