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Supergravity at 40: Reflections and perspectives

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The fortieth anniversary of the original construction of Supergravity provides an opportunity to combine some reminiscences of its early days with an assessment of its impact on the quest for a quantum theory of gravity.

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Dedicated to John H. Schwarz on the occasion of his 75th birthday

Based in part on the talk delivered by S.F. at the “Special Session of the DISCRETE2016 Symposium and the Leopold Infeld Colloquium”, in Warsaw, on December 1 2016, and on a joint CERN Courier article.

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Ferrara, S., Sagnotti, A. Supergravity at 40: Reflections and perspectives. Riv. Nuovo Cim. 40, 279–295 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1393/ncr/i2017-10136-6

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