A "Half a century of Supergravity" book

[arivero]

I am noticing in the arxiv a series of papers marked as

Invited contribution to the book "Half a century of Supergravity” eds. A. Ceresole and G. Dall'Agata (CUP, to be published)

Any idea about if the book has been published or if we have at least an index of the contents?

 

[dextercioby]

Can you provide a link to an arxiv abstract?

 

[arivero]

Up to now I see 18 articles

https://arxiv.org/search/advanced?advanced=&terms-0-operator=AND&terms-0-term="Half+a+century+of+supergravity"&terms-0-field=comments&classification-physics_archives=all&classification-include_cross_list=include&date-filter_by=all_dates&date-year=&date-from_date=&date-to_date=&date-date_type=submitted_date&abstracts=show&size=50&order=-announced_date_first

• Superspace Supergravity, Ulf Lindström; Martin Roček — https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16207
• From Symmetry to Supersymmetry to Supergravity, Elena Castellani — https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11311
• Duality Symmetries, Chris Hull — https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09672
• An exceptional story: Symmetries and dualities between Maximal supergravity and General relativity, Bernard L. Julia — https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07576
• No-scale supergravity, Fabio Zwirner — https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06190
• Microstate Geometries, Iosif Bena; Nicholas P. Warner — https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17310
• Exceptional field theories, Henning Samtleben — https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16947
• Matter Couplings in Supergravity. The first 10 years, Antoine Van Proeyen — https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12510
• New (maximal) gauged supergravities, Gianluca Inverso; Mario Trigiante — https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08616
• A brief history of supermembranes, Eric A. Bergshoeff; Ergin Sezgin; Paul K. Townsend — https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06234
• Sasaki-Einstein Geometry, GK Geometry and the AdS/CFT correspondence, Jerome P. Gauntlett; Dario Martelli; James Sparks — https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01950
• The Ultraviolet Problem in Supergravity, G. Bossard; K. S. Stelle — https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01648
• D=4, N=2 Supergravity: An Unconventional Application, Laura Andrianopoli — https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17324
• Quantum black holes: supersymmetry and exact results, Davide Cassani; Sameer Murthy — https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15360
• Black hole solutions in theories of supergravity, Tomás Ortín — https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12020
• String dualities and modular symmetries in supergravity: a review, Niccolò Cribiori; Dieter Lust — https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06516
• N=8 Supergravity, and beyond, Hermann Nicolai — https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18656
• Non-Linear Supergravity and Inflationary Cosmology, Ignatios Antoniadis; Emilian Dudas; Fotis Farakos; Augusto Sagnotti — https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14943

 

[dextercioby]

Nice, so theoretically you have almost the whole book for free. Thanks for this.

 

[Demystifier]

Among people who work on susy/sugra, what is the prevailing view? Is it a promising unification theory, or is it just a nontrivial toy model in which a lot of stuff can be solved explicitly due to high symmetry?

 

[haushofer]

Among people who work on susy/sugra, what is the prevailing view? Is it a promising unification theory, or is it just a nontrivial toy model in which a lot of stuff can be solved explicitly due to high symmetry?

I suspect that most people see it as a useful device to establish e.g. holography. To paraphrase my supervisor (an author in the list above): "I think SUSY will play a role akin to complex numbers in the sciences as a useful tool to do calculations". As someone who published about (non-relativistic) SUGRA, I think this is a nice way to think about it. Personally, I don't have a lot of hope that SUGRA or SUSY will be found experimentally.

SUGRA-people are also more distant from phenomology than SUSY-BSM-people, so it's more easy for them to say ;)

 

[robphy]

From https://www.strings.to.infn.it/personal/ceresole/

Half a century of Supergravity: a bridge between gravity and the quantum, by A.Ceresole and G.Dall’Agata (Cambridge University press, forthcoming)

Presumably, this search will eventually display this title
https://www.cambridge.org/core/publ...al.date:desc&aggs[productTypes][filters]=BOOK



This Google Scholar search reveals a few contributions that are not among that list of 18 above from that arxiv search
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?...alf+a+century+of+Supergravity"+ceresole&btnG=

• Attractors in Supergravity, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde - https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13682
• The geometry of hypermultiplets, Stefan Vandoren - https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01900
• Kaluza-Klein Supergravity 2025, M.J. Duff, B.E.W. Nilsson, C.N. Pope - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.07710

There may be more... I didn't go through the whole list.
(Some search results
e.g. On the generalized Komar charge of Kaluza-Klein theories and higher-form symmetries, G Barbagallo, et al
are not contributions, but articles that reference contributions.)