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ESI Senior Research Fellow Program, fall term 2009/10
Supergravity Theories
Course of advanced graduate lectures by
Professor Peter West
(King's College, London, UK)
September 30 - October 28, Wednesday 15:00 - 17:00
Seminars: tba, ESI, Schrödinger lecture hall
Abstract:
In these lectures I will give an introduction to supergravity theories. I will begin with the four dimensional
N = 1 supergravity explaining its construction and properties and then present the supergravity
theories in ten and eleven dimensions. I will then discuss the En symmetries that arise in the maximal
supergravity theories. The relevance of these results for string theory will be explained.
ESI Senior Research Fellow Program coordinated by Prof. Joachim
Schwermer, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Wien,
Nordbergstraße 15, A-1090 Wien (Joachim.Schwermer@univie.ac.at).
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