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Lecture for the Fortieth Anniversary of Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-02-09 v1

Abstract

In the first part of this lecture, some very basic ideas in supersymmetry and supergravity are presented at a level accessible to readers with modest background in quantum field theory and general relativity. The second part is an outline of a recent paper of the author and his collaborators on the AdS/CFT correspondence applied to the ABJM gauge theory with N=8\cal{N} =8 supersymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1702.02203,
  title  = {Lecture for the Fortieth Anniversary of Supergravity},
  author = {Daniel Z. Freedman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.02203},
  year   = {2017}
}

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16 pages