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Unification of the Fundamental Particle Interactions

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  • © 1980

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Editors:
  1. Sergio Ferrara

    1. INFN, Frascati, Italy
      Theory Division, CERN, Geneva 23, Switzerland
      Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

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  2. John Ellis

    1. Theory Division, CERN, Geneva 23, Switzerland

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  3. Peter Nieuwenhuizen

    1. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, USA

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Part of the book series: Ettore Majorana International Science Series (EMISS, volume 7)

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Table of contents (41 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Supergravities: Successes and Problems

    • S. Deser
    Pages 1-16

  3. Neutrino Masses, Lepton Number Violation and Unification

    • R. Barbieri
    Pages 17-22

  4. Exceptional Groups for Grand Unification

    • Berthold Stech
    Pages 23-40

  5. A Simple Introduction to Complex Manifolds

    • Luis Alvarez-Gaume, Daniel Z. Freedman
    Pages 41-51

  6. Precise Predictions of GUTs and of the Higgs Meson Mass

    • K. T. Mahanthappa, Marc A. Sher
    Pages 53-67

  7. Attempts at Superunification

    • John Ellis, Mary K. Gaillard, Luciano Maiani, Bruno Zumino
    Pages 69-88

  8. Unification Through a Supergroup

    • Yuval Ne’eman
    Pages 89-99

  9. Superspace

    • B. Zumino
    Pages 101-117

  10. Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity in Superspace

    • Sergio Ferrara
    Pages 119-136

  11. N = 8 Supergravity

    • Eugène Cremmer
    Pages 137-155

  12. The On-Shell N=8 Supergravity in Superspace

    • Lars Brink
    Pages 157-169

  13. Supergravity and Cohomology Theory: Progress and Problems in D = 5

    • R. D’Auria, P. Fré, T. Regge
    Pages 171-185

  14. Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories

    • Martin F. Sohnius, Kellogg S. Stelle, Peter C. West
    Pages 187-244

  15. What is Supergravity and which of its Goals have been Reached?

    • P. van Nieuwenhuizen
    Pages 245-265

  16. Quark-Lepton Unification and Proton Decay

    • Jogesh C. Pati
    Pages 267-303

  17. Subcomponent Models for Quarks and Leptons: Difficulties and Perspectives

    • R. Gatto
    Pages 305-326

  18. Formulations of N = 2 Supergravity Theories

    • B. de Wit
    Pages 327-347

  19. Tensor Calculus for N = 2 Extended Supergravity

    • Peter Breitenlohner
    Pages 349-368

  20. Quantization of Supergravity with a Cosmological Constant

    • M. J. Duff
    Pages 369-378
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About this book

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of a Europhysics Study Conference held in Erice, Sicily from March 17 to 24, 1980. The objective of the meeting was to bring together practitioners of two different approaches to the unification of the fundamental par­ ticle interactions: supersymmetry and supergravity on the one hand, and grand unified gauge theories on the other hand. The hope was that exposure to each others' ideas and problems would at least aid mutual comprehension, and might start people thinking how to develop a synthesis of the two approaches which could avoid their individual shortcomings. It is not clear to us how successful the conference was in achieving these objectives. On the one hand many important ad­ vances in supersymmetric theories were reported which were primarily of a technical nature, while some interesting attempts to probe the phenomenological consequences of supersymmetry and supergravity were also presented. On the other hand there was considerable in­ terest in phenomenological aspects of grand unified theories such as proton decay, neutrino masses and oscillations, and links with cosmology. There was also some work on model-building but rela­ tively few purely technical advances. A few speakers tried to build bridges between the formalism of supersymmetry or supergravity and the phenomenologically successful gauge theories of elementary par­ ticle interactions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • INFN, Frascati, Italy

    Sergio Ferrara

  • Theory Division, CERN, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    Sergio Ferrara, John Ellis

  • Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

    Sergio Ferrara

  • State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, USA

    Peter Nieuwenhuizen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Unification of the Fundamental Particle Interactions

  • Editors: Sergio Ferrara, John Ellis, Peter Nieuwenhuizen

  • Series Title: Ettore Majorana International Science Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3171-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1980

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-40575-4Due: 01 February 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-3173-5Published: 12 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-3171-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 727

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Physics, general

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