Papers
All publications on INSPIRE
Unpublished manuscripts
- Geometric models for critical systems in 2+ε dimensions (1979 manuscript, prepared for the directors of the Nuffield Workshop on Quantum Gravity)
- The space of conformal boundary conditions for the c=1 Gaussian model (1999 note, circulated privately)
- The space of conformal boundary conditions for the c=1 Gaussian model (more) (2003 note, circulated privately)
- Free k-form cft in 2n dimensions (May 2, 2018 note, circulated privately)
Selected papers
- Nonlinear models in 2+ε dimensions, Physical Review Letters 45 (1980) 1057
- Nonlinear models in 2+ε dimensions, doctoral thesis, Annals of Physics 163 (1985) 318
- Some nonabelian toy models in the large N limit, Commun. Math. Phys. 78 (1981) 353
- A proof of the Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem, Commun. Math. Phys. 85 (1982) 481
- Introduction to Polyakov's string theory, Les Houches lectures (1982)
- Supersymmetric derivation of the Atiyah-Singer index and the chiral anomaly, Nuclear Physics B235 (1984) 395
- Nonlinear models in 2+ε dimensions, Physical Review Letters 52 (1984) 1575
- Covariant methods in superstring theory, Proceedings of the APS Division of Particles and Fields, Santa Fe, 1984
- Superconformal invariance in two dimensions and the tricritical Ising model, Physics Letters B151 (1985) 37
- Strings in background fields, Nuclear Physics B262 (1985) 593
- Conformal invariance, supersymmetry and string theory, Nuclear Physics B271 (1986) 93
- String field theory, Nuclear Physics B271 (1986) 540
- The integrable analytic geometry of quantum string, Physics Letters B175 (1986) 287
- The analytic geometry of two dimensional conformal field theory, Nuclear Physics B281 (1987) 509
- The space of conformal field theories and the space of classical string ground states, in Physics and Mathematics of Strings, Memorial Volume for Vadim Knizhnik (1989)
- c-theorem and spectral representation, Nuclear Physics B352 (1991) 616
- A tentative theory of large distance physics, arXiv:hep-th/0204131 (2002), JHEP 0310, 063 (2003)
- Boundary entropy of one-dimensional quantum systems at low temperature, arXiv:hep-th/0312197 (2003), Physical Review Letters 93 (2004) 030402
- Entropy flow in near-critical quantum circuits, arXiv:cond-mat/0505084 (2005), J. Stat. Phys. 167 (2017) 827 — Kadanoff memorial issue
- Entropy flow through near-critical quantum junctions, arXiv:cond-mat/0505085 (2005), J. Stat. Phys. 167 (2017) 854 — Kadanoff memorial issue
- Infrared properties of boundaries in one-dimensional quantum systems, arXiv:hep-th/0512023 (2005), J. Stat. Mech. P03014 (2006)
- General properties of the boundary renormalization group flow for supersymmetric systems in 1+1 dimensions, arXiv:0810.0611 (2008), Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 13 (2009) 1847
- Supersymmetric 1+1d boundary field theory, J. Phys. A 42 (2009) 304015
- Gradient formula for the beta function of 2D quantum field theory, arXiv:0910.3109 (2009), J. Phys. A 43 (2010) 215401
- A loop of SU(2) gauge fields stable under the Yang-Mills flow, arXiv:1008.1189 (2010), Surveys in Differential Geometry 15 (2010) 131
- Curvature formula for the space of 2-d conformal field theories, arXiv:1206.1749 (2012), JHEP 1209, 113 (2012)
- Lower bound on the entropy of boundaries and junctions in 1+1d quantum critical systems, arXiv:1206.5395 (2012), Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 140401 (2012)
- Precise lower bound on Monster brane boundary entropy, arXiv:1305.2122 (2013), JHEP 1307, 099 (2013)
- Constraints on 2d CFT partition functions, arXiv:1307.6562 (2013), JHEP 1310, 180 (2013)
- Cauchy conformal fields in dimensions d>2, arXiv:1509.07475 (2015), Commun. Math. Phys. 348 (2016) 655
- Quantum field theories of extended objects, arXiv:1605.03279 (2016)
- A new kind of quantum field theory of (n−1)-dimensional defects in 2n dimensions, Boundary and Defect CFT, Chicheley Hall, UK (September 2017), arXiv:1810.05697 (2018)
- A new kind of quantum field theory of (n−1)-dimensional defects in 2n dimensions, arXiv:1711.05049 (2017), J. Phys. A 52 (2019) 144001
- A pragmatic approach to formal fundamental physics, arXiv:1810.09508 (2018)
- Cosmology from the two-dimensional renormalization group acting as the Ricci flow, arXiv:1909.01374 (2019)
- Origin of cosmological temperature, arXiv:2005.05349 (2020)
- Thermodynamic stability of a cosmological SU(2)-weak gauge field, arXiv:2203.12052 (2022)
- Dark matter stars, arXiv:2203.12181 (2022)
- A theory of the dark matter, arXiv:2203.12405 (2022)
- First principles cosmology of the Standard Model epoch, arXiv:2204.06323 (2022)
- The CGF dark matter fluid, arXiv:2211.02881 (2022)
- Global structure of euclidean quantum gravity, arXiv:2305.19227 (2023)