Aspects of supersymmetry and supergravity in higher dimensions

November 15 - November 22

Institut Henri Poincare

Sergio Ferrara (CERN/IHP)

The content of IHP Lecture notes 43 can be found in

SPINOR ALGEBRAS by R. D'Auria, S. Ferrara, M.A. Lledo and V.S. Varadarajan

hep-th/0010124

THE SYMPLECTIC STRUCTURE OF N = 2 SUPERGRAVITY AND ITS CENTRAL EXTENSION by A. Ceresole, R. D'Auria and S. Ferrara

hep-th/9509160

FLAT SYMPLECTIC BUNDLES OF N-EXTENDED SUPERGRAVITIES, CENTRAL CHARGES AND BLACK-HOLE ENTROPY by L. Andrianopoli, R. D'Auria and S. Ferrara

hep-th/9707203

BRANES, CENTRAL CHARGES AND U-DUALITY INVARIANT BPS CONDITIONS by S. Ferrara and J. Maldacena

hep-th/9706097

Part 1 INTRODUCTION TO SPINORS

Part 2 EMBEDDING OF SPACETIME GROUPS IN SUPERGROUPS

Part 3 SUPERPOINCARE ALGEBRA WITH CENTRAL EXTENSION IN ANY DIMENSIONS

Part 4 R-SYMMETRY IN ANY DIMENSIONS

Part 5 SUPERTRANSLATION ALGEBRAS AS CONTRACTION OF SIMPLE SUPERALGEBRAS

Part 6 SUPERGRAVITIES IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS