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Supergravity before 1976

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A story on how an attempt to realize W. Heizenberg idea that the neutrino might be a Goldstone particle had led in its development to the discovery of supergravity action.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9410024,
  title  = {Supergravity before 1976},
  author = {Dmitrij V. Volkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9410024},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

(Talk presented at the International Conference on the History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics, Erice, Italy July 29 -- August 4, 1994), 15 pages, LATEX