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The membrane at the end of the (de Sitter) universe
A. Batrachenko, M. J. Duff, J. X. Lu
The original {\it membrane at the end of the universe} corresponds to a probe -brane of signature occupying the boundary of the spacetime…
Quantum Discontinuity for Massive Spin 3/2 with a Lambda Term
M. J. Duff, James T. Liu, H. Sati
We show that the recently demonstrated absence of the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity for massive spin 3/2 with a Lambda term is an artifact of the tree level approximation,…
Comment on time-variation of fundamental constants
M. J. Duff
The possible time variation of dimensionless fundamental constants of nature, such as the fine-structure constant , is a legitimate subject of physical enquiry. By contrast, the…
Complementarity of the Maldacena and Karch-Randall Pictures
M. J. Duff, James T. Liu, H. Sati
We perform a one-loop test of the holographic interpretation of the Karch-Randall model, whereby a massive graviton appears on an AdS_4 brane in an AdS_5 bulk. Within the AdS/CFT f…
M-theory on manifolds of G2 holonomy: the first twenty years
M. J. Duff
In 1981, covariantly constant spinors were introduced into Kaluza-Klein theory as a way of counting the number of supersymmetries surviving compactification. These are related to t…