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String theory, gravity and experiment
Thibault Damour, Marc Lilley
The aim of these lectures is to give an introduction to several topics which lie at the intersection of string theory, gravity theory and gravity phenomenology. One successively re…
Constraints and the E10 Coset Model
Thibault Damour, Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai
We continue the study of the one-dimensional E10 coset model (massless spinning particle motion on E10/K(E10) whose dynamics at low levels is known to coincide with the equations o…
Cosmological Singularities and a Conjectured Gravity/Coset Correspondence
Thibault Damour
We review the recently discovered connection between the Belinsky-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz-like ``chaotic'' structure of generic cosmological singularities in eleven-dimensional superg…
Poincare, Relativity, Billiards and Symmetry
Thibault Damour
This review is made of two parts which are related to Poincaré in different ways. The first part reviews the work of Poincaré on the Theory of (Special) Relativity. One emphasizes…
Eleven dimensional supergravity and the E10/KE10 sigma-model at low A9 levels
T. Damour, H. Nicolai
Recently, the concept of a nonlinear sigma-model over a coset space G/H was generalized to the case where the group G is an infinite-dimensional Kac-Moody group, and H its (formal)…
No consistent cross-interactions for a collection of massless spin-2 fields
Nicolas Boulanger, Thibault Damour, Leonardo Gualtieri +1
We report a no-go theorem excluding consistent cross-couplings for a collection of massless, spin-2 fields described, in the free limit, by the sum of Pauli-Fierz actions (one for…