Killing superalgebras in supergravity
| Date: | April 16, 2008, from 15:30 |
| Place: | Room 633, 6th floor, Research Centers Building, Kashiwa Campus of the University of Tokyo. |
| Speaker: | José M Figueroa-O'Farrill (University of Edinburgh) |
| Title: | Killing superalgebras in supergravity |
| Abstract: | I will discuss several constructions of superalgebras associated to the Killing spinors of a supergravity background, with special emphasis on the ten- and eleven-dimensional supergravities. Some old and more recent applications will be discussed. |
