Wolfgang Kummer and the Vienna School of Dilaton (Super-)Gravity

TL;DR

This paper reviews Wolfgang Kummer's influential work on 2D dilaton gravity and supergravity, highlighting the Vienna School's contributions and presenting new insights into non-local vertices in quantum dilaton supergravity.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive history of the Vienna School's approach and introduces new unpublished results on non-local vertices in quantum dilaton supergravity.

Findings

Significant progress in understanding non-local vertices in quantum dilaton supergravity.

Historical overview of the Vienna School's impact on dilaton gravity research.

New results on the structure of non-minimally coupled matter in supergravity.

Abstract

Wolfgang Kummer was well known for his passion for axial gauges and for the formulation of gravity in terms of Cartan variables. The combination of the two applied to two dimensional dilaton gravity is the basis of the "Vienna School", which provided numerous significant results over the last seventeen years. In this review we trace the history of this success with particular emphasis on dilaton supergravity. We also present some previously unpublished results on the structure of non-local vertices in quantum dilaton supergravity with non-minimally coupled matter.