On supergravity theories and their solutions

Lecturer: Mario Trigiante (Politecnico di Torino)


Lectures 1 and 2: Ungauged Supergravities

 

1. General Introduction: The Ingredients of Supergravity Theories;

2. The Scalar Sector and Global Symmetries;

3. The Fermionic Sector;

4. A Worked-Out Example: Pure N = 1, D = 4 Model With Cosmological Constant;


Lectures 3 and 4: Gauged Extended Supergravities

 

1. Why Gauging Extended Supergravities?

2. The Gauging Procedure;

3. Restoring Duality Covariance: The Embedding Tensor;

4. General Duality Covariant Formulation of Gauged Supergravities;

5. Tensor Hierarchies;

6. The Maximal Gauged Supergravities in D = 4, Their Vacua and Higher-Dimensional
Origin.

 

Required background knowledge:

 

Basic notions of general relativity in the tetrad formulation, tensor calculus and group theory.

To help prepare for Lectures 1 and 2, lecture notes [1] are provided. As for Lectures 3,4 I refer the students to the reviews [2, 3].

 

References:

 

[1] M. Trigiante, “An Introduction to Ungauged Supergravities”, lecture notes;

[2] M. Trigiante, “Gauged Supergravities,” Phys. Rept. 680 (2017), 1-175,
doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2017.03.001 [arXiv:1609.09745 [hep-th]];

[3] H. Samtleben, “Lectures on Gauged Supergravity and Flux Compactifications,” Class.
Quant. Grav. 25 (2008), 214002 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/21/214002 [arXiv:0808.4076
[hep-th]
].

Important Dates
Conference Duration
28 November 2022 - 2 December 2022
Registration
27 September 2022 - 4 November 2022 [CLOSED]
Organiser
Name
Prof K Zoubos
Contact Email
[email protected]
Contact Number
124205781