nLab Daniel Freedman

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One of the co-discoverers of supergravity (4d supergravity).

Selected writings

Introducing 4d supergravity:

• Daniel Freedman, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Sergio Ferrara, Progress toward a theory of supergravity, Phys. Rev. D13 (1976) 3214 (doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.13.3214)

On the stability of Freund-Rubin compactifications:

• Oliver DeWolfe, Daniel Z. Freedman, Steven Gubser, Gary Horowitz, Indrajit Mitra: Stability of $AdS_p \times M^q$ Compactifications Without Supersymmetry, Phys. Rev. D 65 (2002) 064033 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.65.064033, arXiv:hep-th/0105047]

Early discussion of quantum field theory on anti de Sitter spacetimes:

• Peter Breitenlohner, Daniel Z. Freedman, Positive energy in anti-de Sitter backgrounds and gauged extended supergravity, Physics Letters B 115 3 (1982) 197-201 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(82)90643-8]

On supergravity:

• Antoine Van Proeyen, Daniel Freedman, Supergravity, Cambridge University Press (2012) [doi:10.1017/CBO9781139026833]

On multi-trace operators in the AdS/CFT correspondence:

• Eric D'Hoker, Daniel Freedman, Samir Mathur, A. Matusis, Leonardo Rastelli, Extremal Correlators in the AdS/CFT Correspondence, in: The many faces of the superworld (arXiv:hep-th/9908160)

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