Castellani, Elena (2025) From symmetry to supersymmetry to supergravity. [Preprint]

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Abstract

The (theoretical) developments that led to supersymmetry - first global and then local – over a period of about six years (1970/71-1976) emerged from a confluence of physical insights and mathematical methods drawn from diverse, and sometimes independent, research directions. This contribution is devoted to illustrate the entanglement of ideas, methods and motivations informing the entire process – from symmetry to supersymmetry (sect. 2), from supersymmetry to supergravity (sect. 3) – , with a final reflection on the scientific modality of these developments.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Castellani, Elena elena.castellani@unifi.it 0000-0001-5314-0179
Additional Information:	To appear in "Half a Century of Supergravity" (A. Ceresole and G. Dall'Agata, eds., Cambridge University Press)
Keywords:	symmetry, supersymmetry, supergravity, dual models, early string theory
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Depositing User:	Elena Castellani
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2025 14:28
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2025 14:28
Item ID:	24907
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Date:	2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24907

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