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

Selected writings

Early review of supersymmetry:

• Pierre Fayet, Sergio Ferrara: Supersymmetry, Physics Reports 32 5 (1977) 249-334 [doi:10.1016/0370-1573(77)90066-7]

Introducing super Yang-Mills theory:

• Sergio Ferrara, Bruno Zumino, Supergauge invariant Yang-Mills theories, Nuclear Physics B Volume 79, Issue 3, 25 September 1974, Pages 413-421 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(74)90559-8)

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)

Formulation of D=11 supergravity in superspace (via supergeometry):

• Eugene Cremmer, Sergio Ferrara, Formulation of Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity in Superspace, Phys.Lett. B 91 (1980) 61 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(80)90662-0]

On dimensional reduction of D=11 supergravity/M-theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds to D=5 supergravity:

• A. C. Cadavid, Anna Ceresole, Riccardo D'Auria, Sergio Ferrara: 11-Dimensional Supergravity Compactified on Calabi-Yau Threefolds, Phys. Lett. B 357 (1995) 76-80 [arXiv:hep-th/9506144, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)00891-N]

• Sergio Ferrara, Ramzi R. Khuri, Ruben Minasian: M-theory on a Calabi-Yau manifold, Phys. Lett. B 375 (1996) 81-88 [arXiv:hep-th/9602102, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00270-5]

• Sergio Ferrara, Ruben Minasian, Augusto Sagnotti: Low-Energy Analysis of M and F Theories on Calabi-Yau Threefolds, Nucl.Phys. B 474 (1996) 323-342 [arXiv:hep-th/9604097, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(96)00268-4]

On D=4 N=2 supergravity and D=4 N=2 super Yang-Mills theory:

• Laura Andrianopoli, M. Bertolini, A. Ceresole, Riccardo D'Auria, Sergio Ferrara, Pietro Fré, T. Magri: $N=2$ Supergravity and $N=2$ Super Yang-Mills Theory on General Scalar Manifolds: Symplectic Covariance, Gaugings and the Momentum Map, J. Geom. Phys. 23 (1997) 111–189 [doi:10.1016/S0393-0440(97)00002-8, arXiv:hep-th/9605032]

On D=6 supergravity:

• Sergio Ferrara, Fabio Riccioni, Augusto Sagnotti, Tensor and Vector Multiplets in Six-Dimensional Supergravity, Nucl. Phys. B 519 (1998) 115-140 [arXiv:hep-th/9711059, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00837-7]

Discussion of multi-trace operators in super Yang-Mills theory and of their AdS-CFT dual gravity/string theory incarnation:

• Laura Andrianopoli, Sergio Ferrara, On short and long $SU(2,2/4)$ multiplets in the AdS/CFT correspondence, Lett. Math.Phys. 48 (1999) 145-161 (arXiv:hep-th/9812067)

On supergravity models of cosmic inflation:

• Sergio Ferrara, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Massimo Porrati: Minimal Supergravity Models of Inflation, Phys. Rev. D 88 (2013) 085038 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.88.085038, arXiv:1307.7696]

• Sergio Ferrara, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde: Cosmology with Nilpotent Superfields, J. High Energ. Phys. 2014 143 (2014) [doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2014)143, arXiv:1408.4096]

• Sergio Ferrara, Renata Kallosh, Jesse Thaler: Cosmology with orthogonal nilpotent superfields, Phys. Rev. D 93 043516 (2016) [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.043516, arXiv:1512.00545]

• Sergio Ferrara, Renata Kallosh: Seven-Disk Manifold, $\alpha$-attractors and $B$-modes, Phys. Rev. D 94 (2016) 126015 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.126015, arXiv:1610.04163]

  (via 11D supergravity/M-theory on $G_2$-manifolds)

On the history and development of supersymmetry and supergravity:

• Sergio Ferrara, Supersymmetry: Some Reflections on the Future of a Symmetry from the Future,

  talk at 2020 Breakthrough Prize Symposium (November 2019) [video:yt]

  talk at Colloqui della Classe di Scienze (December 2019) [video:yt]

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