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A brief history of supermembranes
Eric A. Bergshoeff, Ergin Sezgin, Paul K. Townsend
``When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up re-membranes of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought''. (Apologies to William Shakespeare)
3D strings and other anyonic things
Luca Mezincescu, Paul K. Townsend
We explain how fractional spin and statistics are relevant to (super)strings in a three-dimensional (3D) Minkowski spacetime.
Dilaton Domain Walls and Dynamical Systems
Julian Sonner, Paul K. Townsend
Domain wall solutions of -dimensional gravity coupled to a dilaton field with an exponential potential are shown to be governed by an autonomous dynamical system,…
Sigma-model soliton intersections from exceptional calibrations
R. Portugues, P. K. Townsend
A first-order `BPS' equation is obtained for 1/8 supersymmetric intersections of soliton-membranes (lumps) of supersymmetric (4+1)-dimensional massless sigma models, and a special…
PhreMology--calibrating M-branes
P. K. Townsend
The relevance of calibrations, and `generalized' calibrations, to supersymmetric M-brane configurations, and their associated field theories, is reviewed, with emphasis on applicat…
A Bogomol`nyi equation for intersecting domain walls
G W Gibbons, P K Townsend
We argue that the Wess-Zumino model with quartic superpotential admits static solutions in which three domain walls intersect at a junction. We derive an energy bound for such junc…