nLab Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

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One of the co-discoveres of supergravity (4d supergravity).

Selected writings

Introducing D=4 supergravity:

• Daniel Freedman, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Sergio Ferrara, Progress toward a theory of supergravity, Phys. Rev. D13 (1976) 3214 (doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.13.3214)

Review of supergravity:

• Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Supergravity, Physics Reports, 68, (1981) 189-398 [doi:10.1016/0370-1573(81)90157-5]

Secretly introducing super L-∞ algebras in their formal dual incarnation (“FDA”s in the supergravity literature):

• Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Free Graded Differential Superalgebras, in: Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Lecture Notes in Physics 180, Springer (1983) 228–247 [doi:10.1007/3-540-12291-5_29, spire:182644]

and the resulting D'Auria-Fré formulation of supergravity:

• Leonardo Castellani, Pietro Fré, F. Giani, Krzysztof Pilch, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Gauging of $d = 11$ supergravity?, Annals of Physics 146 1 (1983) 35-77 [spire:11998, doi:10.1016/0003-4916(83)90052-0]

On Freund-Rubin compactifications of 11d supergravity:

• Riccardo D'Auria, Pietro Fre, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Symmetry Breaking in $d=11$ Supergravity on the Parallelized Seven Sphere, Phys. Lett. B 122 (1983) 225 (spire:181634, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)90689-5)

On D=7 supergravity (as gauged supergravity):

• M. Pernici, Krzysztof Pilch, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Gauged Maximally Extended Supergravity in Seven Dimensions , Phys. Lett. 143B (1984) 103 (spire:15064, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)90813-X)

• M. Pernici, Krzysztof Pilch, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Nicholas Warner, Noncompact Gauging and Critical Points of Maximal Supergravity in Seven Dimensions, Nucl. Phys. B249 (1985) 381 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90046-X>doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90046-X)

• Paul Townsend, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Gauged Seven-Dimensional Supergravity, Phys. Lett. 125B (1983) 41 (spire:189055, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)91230-3)

On the early history of supergravity:

• van Nieuwenhuizen, Some personal recollections about the discovery of supergravity, 1993 (pdf, pdf)

Part of this story also appears as

• David Appell, When supergravity was born, 2012 (pdf)

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