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Peter van Nieuwenhuizen is one of the co-discoveres of supergravity (D=4 supergravity).

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Selected writings

Introducing D=4 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)

Review of supergravity:

• Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Supergravity, Physics Reports, 68, (1981) 189-398 []

On D=12 supergravity:

• Leonardo Castellani, Pietro Fré, F. Giani, Krzysztof Pilch, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen: Beyond $d=11$ Supergravity and Cartan Integrable Systems, Phys. Rev. D 26 (1982) 1481 [[spire:11999](http://inspirehep.net/record/11999)]

Secretly introducing super L-∞ algebras in their formal dual incarnation (“FDA”s in the supergravity literature):

• Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Free Graded Differential Superalgebras, in: Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Lecture Notes in Physics 180, Springer (1983) 228–247 [[doi:10.1007/3-540-12291-5_29](https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-12291-5_29), spire:182644]

and the resulting D'Auria-Fré formulation of supergravity:

• Leonardo Castellani, Pietro Fré, F. Giani, Krzysztof Pilch, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Gauging of $d = 11$ supergravity?, Annals of Physics 146 1 (1983) 35-77 [[spire:11998](https://inspirehep.net/literature/11998), doi:10.1016/0003-4916(83)90052-0]

On Freund-Rubin compactifications of 11d supergravity:

• Riccardo D'Auria, Pietro Fre, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Symmetry Breaking in $d=11$ Supergravity on the Parallelized Seven Sphere, Phys. Lett. B 122 (1983) 225 (spire:181634, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)90689-5)

On D=7 supergravity (as gauged supergravity):

• M. Pernici, Mario Pernici, Krzysztof Pilch, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen , :Gauged Maximally Extended Supergravity in Seven Dimensions , Phys. Lett. 143B B (1984) 103 (spire:15064143 , (1984) 103 [[spire:15064](https://inspirehep.net/literature/15064),doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)90813-X ) ]

• M. Pernici, Mario Pernici, Krzysztof Pilch, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Nicholas Warner , :Noncompact Gauging and Critical Points of Maximal Supergravity in Seven Dimensions , Nucl. Phys. B249 B (1985) 381 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90046-X>doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90046-X249 ) (1985) 381 []

• 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 gauged D=5 supergravity:

• Mario Pernici, Krzysztof Pilch, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen: Gauged $N=8$ $D=5$ Supergravity, Nucl.Phys. B 259 (1985) 460 [[spire:16067](https://inspirehep.net/record/16067)]

On D=3 supergravity:

• Fernando Ruiz Ruiz, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen: Lectures on Supersymmetry and Supergravity in $2+1$ Dimensions and regularization of supersymmetric gauge theories, in: Recent developments in gravitation and mathematical physics. Proceedings, 2nd Mexican School, Tlaxcala, Mexico, December 1-7, 1996 [[pdf](/nlab/files/Nieuwenhuizen3d.pdf), inSpire:434126]

On the early history of supergravity:

• van Nieuwenhuizen, Some personal recollections about the discovery of supergravity (1993) [[pdf](http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/30/028/30028372.pdf), pdf]

Part of this story also appears as:

• David Appell, When supergravity was born, (2012) [[pdf](http://www.davidappell.com/articles/PWSep12appell-supergravity.pdf)]

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