Half a Century of Supergravity

Anna Ceresole is a research director in theoretical physics of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), based at its Turin division. She earned her Ph.D. at SUNY Stony Brook and worked at Caltech before returning to Italy as an assistant professor at the Turin Polytechnic, while also collaborating with CERN over the years. Currently, she serves as an attachée at Italy's Permanent Delegation to UNESCO in Paris. With over 35 years dedicated to supergravity, she has contributed significantly to the structure and applications of N=2 theories in four and five dimensions, collaborating with many of the field's pioneers. She has been active within several European research networks and led INFN's national project on supergravity and strings until 2023. She is co-author of Tullio Regge: An Eclectic Genius (2019). Gianguido Dall'Agata is a professor in theoretical physics at Padua University and director of the Galilean School of Higher Education in Padua. After his Ph.D. in Turin, he has worked at the von Humboldt University of Berlin, CERN and as visitor researcher at ENS and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. Recipient of the 2008 SIGRAV prize, he has devoted most of his career to working on supergravity applications to string phenomenology, black hole physics and cosmology. He is author, with Marco Zagermann, of a book of lecture notes titled Supergravity: From First Principles to Modern Applications. He is also the founder of a recurrent international meeting on supergravity that has been held since 2015.

• Preface Anna Ceresole and Gianguido Dall'Agata; Part I. The Beginnings: 1. History, and the Simplest Proof and the Simplest Model of Supergravity Peter van Nieuwenhuizen; 2. 1976 was a Very Good Year! Reminiscences Daniel Z. Freedman; 3. The Way We Were Sergio Ferrera; 4. N = 8 Supergravity, and Beyond Hermann Nicolai; 5. An Exceptional Story: Symmetries and Dualities between Maximal Supergravity and General Relativity Bernard L. Julia; 6. Matter Couplings in Supergravity: The First 10 Years Antoine van Proeyen; 7. Twisted Compactifications John H. Schwarz; 8. Group Geometric Construction of Supergravity Theories, and their L∞ Algebraic Structure Leonardo Castellani, Ricardo D'Auria and Pietro Fré; 9. Superspace Supergravity Ulf Lindström and Martin Roček; 10. A Personal Reminiscence: Entering the Locally Supersymmetric Domain of Mathicality & How To Thrive Beyond Superspace S. James Gates; 11. A Brief History of Supermembranes Eric A. Bergshoeff, Ergin Sezgin and Paul K. Townsend; 12. From Symmetry to Supersymmetry to Supergravity Elena Castellani; Part II. Structure and properties of SUGRA: 13. The Ultraviolet Problem in Supergravity G. Bossard and K. S. Stelle; 14. Duality Symmetries C. M. Hull; 15. Kaluza-Klein Supergravity 2025 M. J. Duff, B. E. W. Nillson and C. N. Pope; 16. No-scale Supergravity Fabio Zwirner; 17. New (Maximal) Gauged Supergravities Gianluca Inverso and Mario Trigiante; 18. Exceptional Field Theories Henning Samtleben; 19. From G-structures to Supergravity Vacua Alessandro Tomasiello; 20. The Geometry of Hypermultiplets Stefan Vandoren; 21. Non-Linear Supergravity and Inflationary Cosmology Ignatios Antoniadis, Emilian Dudas, Fotis Farakos and Augusto Sagnotti; 22. Attractors in Supergravity Renata Kallosh and Andrei Linde; 23. String Dualities and Modular Symmetries in Supergravity: A Review Niccolò Cribiori and Dieter Lüst; Part III. Holography: 24. Supergravity and the AdS/CFT Correspondence Juan Maldacena; 25. Supergravity and Holography Michela Petrini, Massimo Porrati and Alberto Zaffaroni; 26. Sasaki-Einstein Geometry, GK Geometry and the AdS/CFT Correspondence Jerome P. Gauntlett, Dario Martelli and James Sparks; 27. D = 4, N = 2 Supergravity: An Unconventional Application Laura Andrianopoli; Part IV. Black Holes: 28. Black Hole Solutions in Theories of Supergravity Tomás Ortín; 29. Microstate Geometries Iosef Bena and Nicholas P. Warner; 30. Quantum Black Holes: Supersymmetry and Exact Results Davide Cassani and Sameer Murthy; 31. Black Hole Solutions in Gauged Supergravity Alessandra Gnecchi, Silke Klemm and Chiara Toldo.