Leonardo Castellani - Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria
The plan of the course is:
Part I: Foundations
D=4 N=1 supergravity (SG) in components.
Index-free formulation, proof of local supersymmetry, on shell closure of the supersymmetry
algebra.
Group geometric formulation of (super)gravity theories. Superalgebras: introductory notions.
Free differential algebras. Building procedure for SG actions.
Off-shell SG and auxiliary fields. New minimal D=4, N=1 SG.
Spinors in higher dimensions.
SG in higher dimensions: i) D=10 SG limits of superstring theories, ii) D=11 SG.
Kaluza Klein SG. Compactifications to D=4 and D=5.
