nLab Eric D'Hoker

Selected writings

On the Skyrme model including leptons:

Exposition of the Skyrme model:

  • Eric D'Hoker, Edward Farhi, The Proton as a Topological Twist: A model of elementary particles, without reference to quarks, contains topological structures whose properties match experimental observations remarkably well, American Scientist Vol. 73, No. 6 (November-December 1985), pp. 533-540 (jstor:27853483)

On multi-trace operators in the AdS/CFT correspondence:

On half-BPS solutions in D=11 supergravity

identified as AdS 3 AdS_3 solutions with two 3-sphere-factors (products AdS 3×S 3×S 3×Σ 2AdS_3 \times S^3 \times S^3 \times \Sigma^2 warped over a surface Σ 2\Sigma^2, being near horizon geometries of certain M2-M5-brane bound states):

Discussion of BTZ black hole entropy and more generally of holographic entanglement entropy in 3d quantum gravity/AdS3/CFT2 via Wilson line observables in Chern-Simons theory:

On 2-loop string scattering amplitudes of the superstring:

On modular forms in relation to string theory:

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