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Surprises with angular momentum
Paul K. Townsend
The physics of angular momentum in even space dimensions can be surprisingly counter-intuitive. Three such suprises, all associated with the properties of supersymmetric rotating o…
The `s-rule' exclusion principle and vacuum interpolation in worldvolume dynamics
Joaquim Gomis, Paul K. Townsend, Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth
We show how the worldvolume realization of the Hanany-Witten effect for a supersymmetric D5-brane in a D3 background also provides a classical realization of the `s-rule' exclusion…
Supersymmetric Defect Expansion in CFT from AdS Supertubes
David Mateos, Selena Ng, Paul K. Townsend
The AdS/dCFT correspondence is used to show that a planar q-dimensional superconformal CFT defect expands, under the addition of electric charge and angular momentum, to a supersym…
The Story of M
Paul K. Townsend
The origins of the 11-dimensional supermembrane are recalled, and a curious property is discussed: the field theory limit of a supermembrane in a hyper-Kähler background is a 3-dim…