Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part IThe Beginnings
- Part IIStructure and Properties of Sugra
- 13The Ultraviolet Problem in Supergravity
- 14Duality Symmetries
- 15Kaluza–Klein Supergravity 2025
- 16No-Scale Supergravity
- 17New (Maximal) Gauged Supergravities
- 18Exceptional Field Theories
- 19From G-Structures to Supergravity Vacua
- 20The Geometry of Hypermultiplets
- 21Nonlinear Supergravity and Inflationary Cosmology
- 22Attractors in Supergravity
- 23String Dualities and Modular Symmetries in Supergravity: A Review
- Part IIIHolography
- Part IVBlack Holes
- Index
- References
16 - No-Scale Supergravity
from Part II - Structure and Properties of Sugra
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 May 2026
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part IThe Beginnings
- Part IIStructure and Properties of Sugra
- 13The Ultraviolet Problem in Supergravity
- 14Duality Symmetries
- 15Kaluza–Klein Supergravity 2025
- 16No-Scale Supergravity
- 17New (Maximal) Gauged Supergravities
- 18Exceptional Field Theories
- 19From G-Structures to Supergravity Vacua
- 20The Geometry of Hypermultiplets
- 21Nonlinear Supergravity and Inflationary Cosmology
- 22Attractors in Supergravity
- 23String Dualities and Modular Symmetries in Supergravity: A Review
- Part IIIHolography
- Part IVBlack Holes
- Index
- References
Summary
To connect supergravity with the real world, a highly non-trivial requirement is complete spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in an approximately flat fourdimensional space-time. In no-scale supergravity models, this naturally happens at the classical level: the gravitino mass, setting the scale of supersymmetry breaking, slides along a flat direction of the potential with vanishing energy. This contribution briefly describes, with a personal selection of simple illustrative examples, some qualitative features of no-scale models that relate them to a possible dynamical generation of the hierarchies between the vacuum energy scale, the weak scale and the Planck scale. It includes comments on their versions with extended supersymmetry, on their higher-dimensional origin and on how their still unsolved problems of quantum stability can already be addressed, with some results, at the level of supergravity compactifications, although their solution (if any) will eventually require a better understanding of superstring theories.
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- Half a Century of SupergravityBridging between Einstein and the Quantum, pp. 132 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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