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Erice lectures on "The status of local supersymmetry"

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In the first lecture we review the current status of local supersymmetry. In the second lecture we focus on D=11 supergravity as the low-energy limit of M-theory and pose the questions: (1) What are the D=11 symmetries? (2) How many supersymmetries can M-theory vacua preserve?

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0403160,
  title  = {Erice lectures on "The status of local supersymmetry"},
  author = {M. J. Duff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0403160},
  year   = {2007}
}

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42 pages, latex. Minor corrections; added references