Wolfgang Kummer and the Vienna School of Dilaton (Super-)Gravity

DOI10.1142/9789814277839_0011MaRDI QIDQ3567467zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Bergamin, Rene Meyer

Publication date 17 June 2010

Published in Fundamental Interactions (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2245, http://edoc.mpg.de/543794

zbMATH Keywords

axial gaugesdilaton fieldnon-local verticesnon-minimal couplingsupergravitytwo-dimensional gravityWolfgang Kummer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: Wolfgang Kummer was well known for his passion for axial gauges and for the formulation of gravity in terms of Cartan variables. The combination of the two applied to two dimensional dilaton gravity is the basis of the "Vienna School", which provided numerous significant results over the last seventeen years. In this review we trace the history of this success with particular emphasis on dilaton supergravity. We also present some previously unpublished results on the structure of non-local vertices in quantum dilaton supergravity with non-minimally coupled matter.

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