Peter van Nieuwenhuizen is one of the co-discoveres of supergravity (D=4 supergravity).
Introducing D=4 supergravity:
Review of supergravity:
Secretly introducing super L-∞ algebras in their formal dual incarnation (“FDA”s in the supergravity literature):
and the resulting D'Auria-Fré formulation of supergravity:
On Freund-Rubin compactifications of 11d supergravity:
On D=7 supergravity (as gauged supergravity):
M. Pernici, Krzysztof Pilch, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Gauged Maximally Extended Supergravity in Seven Dimensions , Phys. Lett. 143B (1984) 103 (spire:15064, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)90813-X)
M. Pernici, Krzysztof Pilch, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Nicholas Warner, Noncompact Gauging and Critical Points of Maximal Supergravity in Seven Dimensions, Nucl. Phys. B249 (1985) 381 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90046-X>doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90046-X)
Paul Townsend, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Gauged Seven-Dimensional Supergravity, Phys. Lett. 125B (1983) 41 (spire:189055, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)91230-3)
On D=3 supergravity:
On the early history of supergravity:
Part of this story also appears as:
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