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Counterterms/M-theory Corrections to D=11 Supergravity
S. Deser, D. Seminara
We construct a local on-shell invariant in D=11 supergravity from the nonlocal four-point tree scattering amplitude.Its existence, together with earlier arguments, implies non-reno…
Dimensionally Challenged Gravities
S. Deser
I review some ways in which spacetime dimensionality enters explicitly in gravitation. In particular, I recall some unusual geometrical gravity models that are constructible in dim…
Equivalence of Hawking and Unruh Temperatures and Entropies Through Flat Space Embeddings
S. Deser, Orit Levin
We present a unified description of temperature and entropy in spaces with either "true" or "accelerated observer" horizons: In their (higher dimensional) global embedding Minkowsk…
D=11 Supergravity Revisited
S. Deser
I discuss two novel results in D=11 Supergravity. The first establishes, in two complementary ways, a no-go theorem that, in contrast to all D<11, a cosmological extension of the t…
Chern--Simons Terms as an Example of the Relations Between Mathematics and Physics
S. Deser
The inevitability of Chern--Simons terms in constructing a variety of physical models, and the mathematical advances they in turn generate, illustrates the unexpected but profound…
p-brane Dyons, theta-terms and Dimensional Reduction
S. Deser, M. Henneaux, A. Schwimmer
We present two novel derivations of the recently established factor in the charge quantization condition for -brane dyon sources in spacetime dimension =+2. The f…