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Duality symmetries and phase space quantum theory
Thomas Curtright, Peter West
We argue that duality symmetries can be manifestly realised when theories with these symmetries are quantised using phase space quantum theory. In particular, using background fiel…
The discovery of supergravity and its early development
Peter West
I give an account of the discovery of supergravity and the first six years of its development which lead to the most general coupling of supergravity to matter. I restrict the disc…
Base Models Beat Aligned Models at Randomness and Creativity
Peter West, Christopher Potts
Alignment has quickly become a default ingredient in LLM development, with techniques such as reinforcement learning from human feedback making models act safely, follow instructio…
Local symmetry and extended spacetime
Peter West
We show that the previously proposed local transformations in E theory have a closing algebra if one adopts a simple constraint on the parameters of the transformations that constr…