15 papers
The Spontaneous Compactification of the Closed Bosonic String
P. West
We argue that the higher space-time derivative terms that occur in closed bosonic string field theory are reminiscent of those found in the Landau theory of liquid-crystal transiti…
Coset Symmetries in Dimensionally Reduced Bosonic String Theory
N. D. Lambert, P. C. West
We discuss the dimensional reduction of various effective actions, particularly that of the closed Bosonic string and pure gravity, to two and three dimensions. The result for the…
AdS/SCFT in Superspace
P. S. Howe, P. C. West
A discussion of the AdS/CFT correspondence in IIB is given in a superspace context. The main emphasis is on the properties of SCFT correlators on the boundary which are studied usi…
Goldstone-Soliton Interactions and Brane World Neutrinos
N. D. Lambert, P. C. West
We discuss the interactions of Goldstone particles with solitonic states. We observe that, contrary to the familiar situation in the vacuum sector, the Goldstone particles can have…
Four-point functions in N=2 superconformal field theories
B. U. Eden, P. S. Howe, A. Pickering +2
Four-point correlation functions of hypermultiplet bilinear composites are analysed in N=2 superconformal field theory using the superconformal Ward identities and the analyticity…
M-Theory and Hypercharge
N. D. Lambert, P. C. West
We discuss the possibility that the electro-weak and strong interactions arise as the low energy effective description of branes in M-theory. As a step towards constructing such a…