nLab Dmitrij Volkov

• Memorial Page

• obituary

• Interview with Dmitry Volkov by Yuri Ranyuk, Imperial College, London March 1995 (aip oral histories:4392)

• S. I. Volkova, A. A. Zheltukhin, Glimpses of Dmitry Volkov’s life and work, Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements Volume 101, Issues 1–3, August 2001, Pages 20-25 (doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(01)01489-X)

• A.S. Bakai, S. V. Peletminskii, N.F. Shul’ga, Yu.V. Slyusarenko, D.V. Uvarov, A.A. Zheltukhin, To the 90-th anniversary of Dmitry Vasilievich Volkov’s birthday, Ukrainian Journal of Physics v.60 N7 (2015) 675-677 (arXiv:1506.03003)

• Steven Duplij, Supergravity was discovered by D.V. Volkov and V.A. Soroka in 1973, wasn’t it?, East Eur. J. Phys. p. 81-82 (2019) (arXiv:1910.03259)

Selected writings:

The idea of supergravity was proposed by

• Dmitry Volkov, V. P. Akulov, Possible universal neutrino interaction, ZhETF Pis. Red. (JETP Letters, AIP translation), 16, n.11 (1972) 621 (pdf)

followed up by the first model of supergravity (in nonlinear realization) constructed in

• Dmitry Volkov and Vyacheslav Soroka, Higgs effect for Goldstone particles with spin 1/2, ZhETF Pis. Red. (JETP Letters, AIP translation), 18, n.8 (1973) 529 (pdf)

On D=4 supergravity formulated in superspace:

• V. Akulov, Dmitry Volkov and Vyacheslav Soroka, Generally covariant theories of gauge fields on superspace, Theor. Math. Phys. 31 (1977) 285 (doi:10.1007/BF01041233)

On the history of supergravity:

• Dmitry Volkov, Supergravity before and after 1976. The story of goldstonions, in [Concise Encyclopedia of Supersymmetry,]

  S. Duplij, J. Bagger, W. Siegel (Eds.), Springer, 2004](http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781402013386) or arXiv:hep-th/9404153

On kappa-symmetry explained via the superembedding approach:

• Dmitri Sorokin, V. Tkach and Dmitrij Volkov, Superparticles, twistors and Siegel symmetry, Mod. Phys. Lett. A4 (1989) 901-908 (spire:271923, doi:10.1142/S0217732389001064)

On superstrings and super membranes formulated in superspace:

• Igor Bandos, Dmitrij Sorokin, Dmitrij Volkov, On the generalized action principle for superstrings and supermembranes, Phys. Lett. B352:269-275, 1995 (arXiv:hep-th/9502141)

On the derivation of the equations of motion for the superstring and the M2-brane via the superembedding approach:

• Igor Bandos, Paolo Pasti, Dmitri Sorokin, Mario Tonin, Dmitry Volkov, Superstrings and supermembranes in the doubly supersymmetric geometrical approach, Nucl. Phys. B446:79-118, 1995 (arXiv:hep-th/9501113)

Related $n$Lab entries

• kappa-symmetry

• superembedding formalism

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