Abstract
A story on how an attempt to realize W. Heisenberg’s idea that the neutrino might be a Goldstone particle had led in its development to the discovery of a supergravity action.
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Introduction
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Goldstone fermions, super-Poincaré group and its spontaneous breaking
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Gauged super-Poincaré group
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Supergravity action and super-Higgs effect
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Superspace formulation of Supergravity (first steps into Superspace)
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Work supported in part by the ISF Grant No RY 9000 and INTAS Grant No 93–493.
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Volkov, D.V. (1996). Supergravity Before 1976. In: Newman, H.B., Ypsilantis, T. (eds) History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 352. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1147-8_34
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