Abstract
I summarize, at its 41st – and what would have been Bruno Zumino’s 94th – birthday, the history of the discoveries of Supergravity, and some of its structure and later developments.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
J. Wess and B. Zumino, Nucl. Phys. B 70, 39 (1974).
Y.A. Gol’fand and E.P. Lichtman, JETP Lett. 13, 323 (1971).
D.V. Volkov and V.P. Akulov, JETP Lett. 16, 438 (1972).
B. Zumino and S. Deser, in Proceedings of the Conference on Gauge Theories and Modern Field Theory, Northeastern University, September 1975 (MIT Press), R. Arnowitt and P. Nath, Eds.
C. Aragone and S. Deser, Nuov. Cim. 3A, 709 (1971).
H.A. Buchdahl, Nuov. Cim. 10, 96 (1958).
S. Deser and P. van Nieuwenhuizen, Phys. Rev. D 10, 401 (1974).
S. Deser and P. van Nieuwenhuizen, Phys. Rev. D 411, 3337 (1974).
M.H. Goroff and A. Sagnotti, Phys. Lett. B 160, 81 (1985).
G. ’tHooft and M.J.G. Veltman, Ann. Inst. H. Poincare Phys. Theor. A 20, 69–94 (1974).
S. Deser, J.H. Kay, and K.S. Stelle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 38, 527 (1977).
S. Deser and B. Zumino, Phys. Lett. B 65, 369 (1976).
S. Deser and B. Zumino, Phys. Lett. B 62, 335 (1976).
H. Weyl, Z. Phys. 56, 330 (1929).
H. Weyl, Phys. Rev. 77, 699 (1950).
V.A. Fock, Z. Phys. 57, 261–277 (1929).
C. Aragone and S. Deser, Phys. Lett. 86B, 161 (1979).
C. Aragone and S. Deser, Nucl. Phys. 170, 329[FS1] (1980).
D.Z. Freedman, P. Van Nieuwenhuizen and S. Ferrara, Phys. Rev. D 13, 3214 (1976).
M. Ostrogradsky, Mem. Ac. St. Petersbourg V 14, 385 (1850).
K. Sundermeyer. Symmetries in fundamental physics, in Fundamental Theories of Physics (Springer, 2014), Vol. 176.
P.K. Townsend, Phys. Rev. D15, 2802 (1977).
D.Z. Freedman and A.K. Das, Nucl. Phys. B 120, 221 (1977).
S.W. MacDowell and F. Mansouri, Phys. Rev. Lett. 38, 739 (1977).
S. Deser and B. Zumino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 38, 1433 (1977).
E.A. Bergshoeff et al. [arxiv:1307.08264].
A. Salam and E. Sezgin, in Supergravities in diverse dimensions (North Holland/ World Scientific, 1989), Vol. 2.
L. Brink, S. Deser, B. Zumino, P. DiVecchia and P. Howe, Phys. Lett. B 64, 435 (1976).
S. Deser, R. Jackiw and S. Templeton, Ann. Phys. 140, 372–411 (1982).
S. Deser, R. Jackiw and S. Templeton, Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 975 (1982).
S. Deser and J.H. Kay, Phys. Lett. B 120, 97 (1983).
W. Nahm, Nucl. Phys. B 135, 149 (1978).
E. Cremmer, B. Julia and J. Scherk, Phys. Lett. B 76, 409 (1978).
E. Cremmer and B. Julia, Phys. Lett. B 80, 48 (1978).
L. Brink, O. Lindgren and B.E.W. Nilsson, Phys. Lett. B 123, 323 (1983).
M.T. Grisaru, Phys. Lett. B 66, 75 (1977).
Z. Bern et al., Phys. Rev. D 96, 126012 (2017).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Deser, S. A brief history (and geography) of Supergravity: the first 3 weeks... and after. EPJ H 43, 281–291 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2018-90005-3
Received:
Revised:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2018-90005-3