Starting--point of Supergravity
arXiv:hep-th/0111271
Abstract
In this report I wish to recall how the basic concepts and ingredients of supergravity were formulated by Dmitrij V. Volkov and the present author in 1973-74 under the first investigation of the super-Higgs effect .
7 pages, LATEX 2e. The report is submitted for the poster presentation at the Conference "Supergravity at 25" and for the publication in the Proceedings of this Conference, which will be at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics of SUNY in Stony Brook, New York, USA, 1-2 December, 2001