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What is Supergravity and which of its Goals have been Reached?

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Unification of the Fundamental Particle Interactions

Part of the book series: Ettore Majorana International Science Series ((EMISS,volume 7))

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It is a relief to show you the beautiful vistas of supergravity now that we have been engulfed here on top of this mountain in fog and rain for more than a week. Local Fermi-Bose symmetry (= local supersymmetry) can only be implemented in curved spacetime. Thus supergravity is born by joining particle physics and relativity. To promote contact and further offspring this school was organized.

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  1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, N.Y., 117 94, USA

    P. van Nieuwenhuizen

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. INFN, Frascati, Italy

    Sergio Ferrara

  2. Theory Division, CERN, Geneva 23, CH-1211, Switzerland

    Sergio Ferrara  & John Ellis  & 

  3. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, F-75231, Paris, France

    Sergio Ferrara

  4. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, 11794, USA

    Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

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This contribution is dedicated to my friend Joel Scherk, whose last scientific activity was this conference and who died two months later.

Joel was, in my opinion, the most creative supergravity practitioner. His work in extended supergravity and dimensional reduction was unusually inventive and elegant. his death is a personal blow for many of us. It is a setback for the Ecole Normale in Paris and for CERN, where he would have started a six-year appointment in September. For supergravity the loss is irreplaceable.

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van Nieuwenhuizen, P. (1980). What is Supergravity and which of its Goals have been Reached?. In: Ferrara, S., Ellis, J., van Nieuwenhuizen, P. (eds) Unification of the Fundamental Particle Interactions. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3171-1_14

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