The discovery of supergravity and its early development
High Energy Physics - Theory
2025-08-01 v1
Abstract
I give an account of the discovery of supergravity and the first six years of its development which lead to the most general coupling of supergravity to matter. I restrict the discussion to theories with only one supersymmetry that are in four dimensions. As well as describing the contents of the papers I will also discuss the ideas and techniques they used. I begin by giving an account of the discovery of supersymmetry.
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@article{arxiv.2507.23634,
title = {The discovery of supergravity and its early development},
author = {Peter West},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.23634},
year = {2025}
}
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23 pages