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Selected writings

On KK-compactification of 11-dimensional supergravity on a squashed 7-sphere with G₂-holonomy (M-theory on G₂-manifolds):

• Moustafa A. Awada, Mike Duff, Christopher Pope, $N=8$ Supergravity Breaks Down to $N=1$, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50 5 (1983) 294-297 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.294]

On Kaluza-Klein compactification in supergravity:

• Mike Duff, Bengt Nilsson, Christopher Pope, Kaluza-Klein supergravity, Physics Reports Volume 130, Issues 1–2, January 1986, Pages 1-142 (spire:229417, doi:10.1016/0370-1573(86)90163-8)

On the emergence of superconformal field theory in the perturbations of the super-membrane Green-Schwarz sigma model around a classical solution stretched along the asymptotic boundary of anti de Sitter spacetime:

• Eric Bergshoeff, Michael Duff, Christopher Pope, Ergin Sezgin: Supersymmetric Supermembrane Vacua and Singletons, Phys. Lett. B 199 (1987) 69-74 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(87)91465-1, InSpire:250244]

On supersymmetry and G-structure (notably Spin(7)-structure in M-theory on 8-manifolds):

• Chris Isham, Christopher Pope, Nowhere Vanishing Spinors and Topological Obstructions to the Equivalence of the NSR and GS Superstrings, Class. Quant. Grav. 5 (1988) 257 (spire:251240, doi:10.1088/0264-9381/5/2/006)

• Chris Isham, Christopher Pope, Nicholas Warner, Nowhere-vanishing spinors and triality rotations in 8-manifolds, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 5, Number 10, 1988 (cds:185144, doi:10.1088/0264-9381/5/10/009)

On G₂-conifolds:

• Gary Gibbons, Don Page, Christopher Pope, Einstein metrics on $S^3$, $\mathbb{R}^3$ and $\mathbb{R}^4$ bundles, Comm. Math. Phys. Volume 127, Number 3 (1990), 529-553 (euclid:cmp/1104180218)

On higher curvature corrections to D=11 supergravity and M-theory on G₂-manifolds:

• H. Lu, Christopher Pope, Kellogg Stelle, Paul Townsend, Supersymmetric Deformations of $G_2$ Manifolds from Higher-Order Corrections to String and M-Theory, JHEP 0410:019, 2004 (arXiv:hep-th/0312002)

• H. Lu, Christopher Pope, Kellogg Stelle, Paul Townsend, String and M-theory Deformations of Manifolds with Special Holonomy, JHEP 0507:075, 2005 (arXiv:hep-th/0410176)

On the work of Mike Duff:

• Leron Borsten, Alessio Marrani, Christopher N. Pope, Kellogg Stelle, Introduction to the special issue dedicated to Michael J. Duff FRS on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Proceedings of the Royal Society A,

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