Where Can I Find Beginner-Friendly Resources on Supergravity?

[arroy_0205]

Can you suggest any lecture notes/review articles/free books available in the internet at introductory level and which uses standard conventions in use at present? Thanks.

 

[Simon_Tyler]

Hi arroy,

There's a heap of reviews and lectures collected at
http://www.stringwiki.org/wiki/Supersymmetry_and_Supergravity

As for a freely available textbook, there's always '1001 lessons'
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=1149288
although it's a little old now.

Simon

 

[humanino]

It's not free, but if you like his style, Weinberg's 3rd volume is pretty good.

 

[arroy_0205]

Thanks for your responses. I have come across some review articles but I am not sure exactly which one would be best to learn from. Since I will have to learn myself, first I want to be sure about a particular source. In past I have at times felt this difficulty: I grabbed whatever source I found to learn some specific topic and after sometime realized that I should switch the source due to difficulty in following the material at later stages. So effectively I wasted time. The reason I asked this question here was to learn from your experiences: get a specific suggestion about a material which one would be possibly able to use alone. Thanks for your attention, anyway.

 

[haushofer]

I really liked Samtleben's introduction. He also wrote a nice introduction about gauged sugra. Samtleben's intro is the most basic but also one of the clearest I could find when I tried to get a grasp on sugra.

Van Proeyen's notes are also quite nice, but his conventions are in my opinion sometimes quite awful. That's a matter of taste ofcourse.

So I suggest Samtleben ;)

 

[chrispb]

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TVP-46TYPH8-3&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=08806620ef90de6996cf056d16fa0432

Hopefully that link worked out. I was given that to learn from, and although I'm no expert in the field, I've certainly found it reasonably intelligible. I understand that it's a bit outdated, but nonetheless, it's still good for learning the basics.

It'd be nice to find a newer review that discusses what went wrong in this paper so I can understand the current state of affairs.