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Selected writings

Early discussion of U-duality-covariant D=11 supergravity (later: “exceptional field theory”):

• Bernard de Wit, Hermann Nicolai: D = 11 Supergravity With Local $SU(8)$ Invariance, Nucl. Phys. B 274, 363 (1986) [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(86)90290-7, spire:227409]

• Bernard de Wit, Hermann Nicolai: Local SU(8) invariance in $d = 11$ supergravity, talk at Nuffield Workshop on Supersymmetry and its Applications, 0357 [spire:218601]

On area-preserving diffeomorphisms in the supermembrane (M2-brane) sigma-model:

• Bernard de Wit, U. Marquard, Hermann Nicolai: Area-preserving diffeomorphisms and supermembrane Lorentz invariance, Commun. Math. Phys. 128 (1990) 39–62 [doi:10.1007/BF02097044, inSpire:277216]

On the regularized quantization of the supermembrane (the kappa-symmetric Green-Schwarz sigma-model for the M2-brane) to the BFSS matrix model:

• Bernard de Wit, Jens Hoppe, Hermann Nicolai, On the Quantum Mechanics of Supermembranes, Nucl. Phys. B305 (1988) 545. (pdf, pdf, spire:261702)

• Bernard de Wit, W. Lüscher, Hermann Nicolai, The supermembrane is unstable, Nucl. Phys. B320 (1989) 135 (spire:266584, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(89)90214-9)

On D=3 supergravity:

• Bernard de Wit, A.K. Tollsten, Hermann Nicolai, Locally supersymmetric D=3 non-linear sigma models, Nucl. Phys. B 392 (1993) 3-38 [arXiv:hep-th/9208074, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(93)90195-U]

On super-$AdS_4$ (super-near horizon geometry of black M2-branes as in AdS4/CFT3-duality):

• Bernard de Wit, Kasper Peeters, Jan Plefka, Alexander Sevrin, The M-theory two-brane in $AdS_4 \times S^7$ and $AdS_7 \times S^4$, Physics Letters B 443 1-4 (1998) 153-158 [doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01340-9, inspire:474621]

On supergravity and duality in string theory:

• Bernard de Wit, Jan Louis, Supersymmetry and Dualities in various dimensions, NATO Sci. Ser. C 520 (1999) 33-101 [arXiv:hep-th/9801132, inspire:453367]

On U-duality:

• Bernard de Wit, Hermann Nicolai: Hidden Symmetries, Central Charges and All That, Class. Quant. Grav. 18 (2001) 3095-3112 [arXiv:hep-th/0011239, doi:10.1088/0264-9381/18/16/302]

On gauged supergravity and introducing the concept of tensor hierarchies:

• Bernard de Wit, Henning Samtleben, Gauged maximal supergravities and hierarchies of nonabelian vector-tensor systems, Fortsch. Phys. 53 (2005) 442-449 (arXiv:hep-th/0501243)

• Bernard de Wit, Henning Samtleben, The end of the $p$-form hierarchy, JHEP 0808:015, 2008 (arXiv:0805.4767)

On tensor hierarchies in gauged supergravity and possible relation to U-duality and M-theory:

• Bernard de Wit, Hermann Nicolai, Henning Samtleben, Gauged Supergravities, Tensor Hierarchies, and M-Theory, JHEP 0802:044, 2008 (arXiv:0801.1294)

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