Introducing what came to be called the Nicolai map:
Hermann Nicolai, On a new characterization of scalar supersymmetric theories, Physics Letters B 89 3–4 (1980) Pages 341-346 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(80)90138-0]
Hermann Nicolai, Supersymmetry and functional integration measures, Nuclear Physics B
176 2 (1980) 419-428 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(80)90460-5]
Hermann Nicolai, Supersymmetric functional integration measures, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Supersymmetry, Bonn (Aug 1984) 393-420 [cds:155731]
On the singleton representations of the orthosymplectic super Lie algebra:
Realizing local U-duality symmetry of D=11 supergravity:
Bernard de Wit, Hermann Nicolai: D = 11 Supergravity With Local 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 supergravity, talk at Nuffield Workshop on Supersymmetry and its Applications, 0357 [spire:218601]
Realizing local U-duality symmetry of D=11 supergravity:
On D=2 supergravity:
On quantization of the M2-brane Green-Schwarz sigma-model by 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)
Hermann Nicolai, Robert C. Helling, Supermembranes and M(atrix) Theory, In Trieste 1998, Nonperturbative aspects of strings, branes and supersymmetry 29-74 (arXiv:hep-th/9809103, spire:476366)
On gauged D=4 N=8 supergravity:
Bernard de Wit, Hermann Nicolai, supergravity with local invariance, Phys. Lett. 108 B (1982) 285 (doi:10.1016/0370-2693(82)91194-7)
Bernard de Wit. Hermann Nicolai, supergravity, Nucl. Phys. B208 (1982) 323 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(82)90120-1)
On D=3 supergravity:
On D=3 gauged supergravity and introducing the concept of embedding tensors:
Hermann Nicolai, Henning Samtleben, Maximal gauged supergravity in three dimensions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 1686-1689 (arXiv:hep-th/0010076)
Hermann Nicolai, Henning Samtleben, Compact and Noncompact Gauged Maximal Supergravities in Three Dimensions (arXiv:hep-th/0103032)
On U-duality symmetry of D=11 supergravity in view of M-theory:
Hermann Nicolai: On M-Theory, J Astrophys Astron 20 (1999) 149–164 [arXiv:hep-th/9801090, doi:10.1007/BF02702349]
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]
Discussion of E9 in view of U-duality-symmetry of D=11 supergravity reduced to (finite-dimensional representations of the maximal compact subalgebra :
Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai, Adriano Viganò: On spinorial representations of involutory subalgebras of Kac-Moody algebras, In: Partition Functions and Automorphic Forms, Moscow Lectures 5, Springer (2020) [arXiv:1811.11659, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-42400-8_4]
Hermann Nicolai, Henning Samtleben: On , Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly 1 1 (2005) 180–204 [arXiv:hep-th/0407055, doi:10.4310/PAMQ.2005.v1.n1.a8]
Axel Kleinschmidt, Ralf Köhl, Robin Lautenbacher, Hermann Nicolai: Representations of involutory subalgebras of affine Kac-Moody algebras, Commun. Math. Phys. 392 (2022) 89–123 [arXiv:2102.00870, doi:10.1007/s00220-022-04342-9]
On the maximal compact subalgebras of E9 and E10, respectively, and their finite-dimensional linear representations:
Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai, Jakob Palmkvist: from , Journal of High Energy Physics 2007 JHEP06 (2007) [arXiv:hep-th/0611314, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/051]
Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai: On higher spin realizations of , J. High Energ. Phys. 2013 41 (2013) [arXiv:1307.0413, doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2013)041]
Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai: Generalised holonomies and , J. High Energ. Phys. 2021 54 (2021) [arXiv:2107.02445, doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2021)054]
On tensor hierarchies in gauged supergravity and possible relation to U-duality and M-theory:
On 4d gauged supergravity and 11d supergravity:
On U-duality in supergravity:
Bernard de Wit, Hermann Nicolai, Supergravity With Local Invariance, Nucl. Phys.
B 274, 363 (1986)
Hermann Nicolai, Supergravity with Local Invariance , Phys. Lett. B 187, 316 (1987).
K. Koepsell, Hermann Nicolai, Henning Samtleben, An exceptional geometry for supergravity?, Class. Quant. Grav. 17, 3689 (2000) (arXiv:hep-th/0006034).
On a 1d sigma-model on a coset space of the E10 U-duality-group as a potential model for the M-theory-completion of 11D supergravity:
Thibault Damour, Marc Henneaux, Hermann Nicolai: and a “small tension expansion” of M theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 221601 (2002) [arXiv:hep-th/0207267, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.221601]
Thibault Damour, Hermann Nicolai: Eleven dimensional supergravity and the sigma-model at low levels, in Proceedings of the XXV International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, 2-6 August 2004, Cocoyoc, Mexico, Routledge (2005) 93-111 [arXiv:hep-th/0410245, ISBN:9780750310086]
Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai: and invariant supergravity, JHEP 0407,
041 (2004) [arXiv:hep-th/0407101, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/07/041]
Thibault Damour, Hermann Nicolai: Higher order M theory corrections and the Kac-Moody algebra , Class. Quant. Grav. 22 (2005) 2849-2880 [arXiv:hep-th/0504153, doi:10.1088/0264-9381/22/14/003]
(relating to higher curvature corrections)
Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai: Cosmology, JHEP 01 (2006) 137 [arXiv:hep-th/0511290, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/01/137]
(cosmological solutions)
Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai: Maximal supergravities and the model, International Journal of Modern Physics D 15 10 (2006) 1619-1642 [doi:10.1142/S0218271806009005]
Thibault Damour, Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai: Constraints and the Coset Model, Class. Quant. Grav. 24 (2007) 6097-6120 [arXiv:0709.2691, doi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/23/025]
Hermann Nicolai: Wonders of and , talk at Wonders of Gauge Theory and Supergravity, IHP Paris (2008) [pdf]
Eric A. Bergshoeff, Olaf Hohm, Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai, Teake A. Nutma, Jakob Palmkvist: and Gauged Maximal Supergravity, JHEP 0901:020 (2009) [doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/020, arXiv:0810.5767]
(relation to D=3 gauged supergravity)
Thibault Damour, Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai: Sugawara-type constraints in hyperbolic coset models, Commun. Math. Phys. 302 (2011) 755-788 [arXiv:0912.3491, doi:10.1007/s00220-011-1188-y]
Hermann Nicolai, On Exceptional Geometry and Supergravity, talk at Gravitation, Solitons and Symmetries (2014) [pdf]
Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai: The Wheeler-DeWitt operator at low levels, J. High Energ. Phys. 2022 92 (2022) [arXiv:2202.12676, doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2022)092]
(relation to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for 11D supergravity)
On E10 and E11 representation theory:
On E10-U-duality exceptional field theory with fermions (-coset model supersymmetric quantum mechanics):
Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai: IIA and IIB spinors from , Phys. Lett.B 637 (2006) 107-112 [arXiv:hep-th/0603205, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2006.04.007]
Thibault Damour, Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai: , Supergravity and Fermions, JHEP 0608:046 (2006) [arXiv:hep-th/0606105, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/08/046]
and speculation about relation to phenomenology (standard model of particle physics):
747 (2015) 251-254 [arXiv:1504.01586, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.005]
On E9 BPS states:
On infinite-dimensional Kac-Moody algebras as U-duality symmetries of D=11 supergravity, with focus on the example of E10:
On super-heavy gravitinos as dark matter candidates, by embedding D=4 N=8 supergravity into E10-U-duality-invariant M-theory:
Krzysztof A. Meissner, Hermann Nicolai, Standard Model Fermions and Infinite-Dimensional R-Symmetries, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 091601 (2018) (arXiv:1804.09606)
Krzysztof A. Meissner, Hermann Nicolai, Planck Mass Charged Gravitino Dark Matter, Phys. Rev. D 100, 035001 (2019) (arXiv:1809.01441)
Krzysztof A. Meissner, Hermann Nicolai, Supermassive gravitinos and giant primordial black holes (arXiv:2007.11889)
Adrianna Kruk, Michał Lesiuk, Krzysztof A. Meissner, Hermann Nicolai: Signatures of supermassive charged gravitinos in liquid scintillator detectors [arXiv:2407.04883]
On higher spin gauge theory and Kac-Moody algebras:
On a perturbation series for the M2-brane Green-Schwarz sigma-model quantized to the BFSS matrix model:
and on the relation to the string theory-dilaton under double dimensional reduction:
Krzysztof A. Meissner, Hermann Nicolai, Fundamental Membranes and the String Dilaton [arXiv:2208.05822]
Krzysztof A. Meissner, Hermann Nicolai, Evidence for a stable supermassive gravitino with charge ? [arXiv:2303.09131]
On quantum gravity:
On Lars Brink:
On the history of supersymmetry:
Survey of D=4 N=8 supergravity:
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