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Paul Dirac and the Pervasiveness of His Thinking
David I Olive
I shall use a few personal reminiscences of my time as a student and colleague of Dirac in Cambridge to introduce some reflections on the nature of research in theoretical physics.…
Charges and fluxes in Maxwell theory on compact manifolds with boundary
Marcos Alvarez, David I. Olive
We investigate the charges and fluxes that can occur in higher-order Abelian gauge theories defined on compact space-time manifolds with boundary. The boundary is necessary to supp…
Duality and Lorentzian Kac-Moody Algebras
David Ian Olive
A review is given of ideas in electromagnetic duality and connections to integrable field theories with soliton solutions. This leads on to a summary of recent work on Lorentzian a…
A class of Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras
Matthias R Gaberdiel, David I Olive, Peter C West
We consider a natural generalisation of the class of hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras. We describe in detail the conditions under which these algebras are Lorentzian. We also construc…
The Principal SO(1,2) Subalgebra of a Hyperbolic Kac Moody Algebra
H. Nicolai, D. I. Olive
The analog of the principal SO(3) subalgebra of a finite dimensional simple Lie algebra can be defined for any hyperbolic Kac Moody algebra g(A) associated with a symmetrizable Car…
The Quantisation of Charges
David I Olive
The question as to whether the integrality of the spectrum of observed electric charges is due to a quantum effext has fascinated theoretical physicists throughout the last century…