Kaluza-Klein Supergravity 2025

Abstract

We recall our work in the 1980s taking seriously the maximal eleven dimensions of supergravity, in particular the round, left squashed and right squashed $S^7$ compactifications to $D=4$ yielding $\mathcal{N}=8$, $\mathcal{N}=1$ and $\mathcal{N}=0$, respectively. This involved Kaluza-Kein techniques that have found wider applications such as spontaneous compactification, holonomy and supersymmetry, topology versus geometry, squashing and Higgs, vacuum stability and consistent truncations.

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