Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran (1938-2025) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist, retired from the Syracuse University.
V. P. Nair: A.P. Balachandran: Living in Physics [arXiv:2509.06139]
On classical coupling of particles to a Yang-Mills field:
Early discussion of abelian Chern-Simons theory as an effective field theory for the fractional quantum Hall effect:
A. P. Balachandran, A. M. Srivastava: Chern-Simons Dynamics and the Quantum Hall Effect [arXiv:hep-th/9111006, spire:319826]
A. P. Balachandran, L. Chandar, B. Sathiapalan: Chern-Simons Duality and the Quantum Hall Effect, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A11 (1996) 3587-3608 [doi:10.1142/S0217751X96001693, arXiv:hep-th/9509019]
On the spin-statistics theorem for non-relativistic particles via the topology of their configuration spaces of points:
On 3D Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory:
On group theory, Lie theory, representation theory, and Hopf algebras for physics:
Discussion of density matrices, quantum entanglement and entropy in quantum probability/algebraic quantum theory, via the GNS construction:
A. P. Balachandran, T. R. Govindarajan, Amilcar R. de Queiroz, A. F. Reyes-Lega, Section II of: Algebraic approach to entanglement and entropy, Phys. Rev. A 88 (2013) 022301 [arXiv:1301.1300, doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.88.022301]
A. P. Balachandran, A. R. de Queiroz, S. Vaidya, Entropy of Quantum States: Ambiguities, Eur. Phys. J. Plus 128 (2013) 112 [arXiv:1212.1239, doi:10.1140/epjp/i2013-13112-3]
and with emphasis on solitons and Skyrmions:
On superselection sectors and asymptotic symmetries of gauge theories:
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