nLab Gary Gibbons

Gray Gibbons is professor for theoretical physics at Cambridge.

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Selected writings

On D1-D3 brane intersections as spikes/BIons in the D3-brane DBI-theory:

• Gary Gibbons, Born-Infeld particles and Dirichlet p-branes, Nucl. Phys. B514: 603-639, 1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9709027)

On Yang-Mills monopoles:

• Gary Gibbons, Nicholas Manton, Classical and Quantum Dynamics of BPS Monopoles, Nucl. Phys. B274 (1986) 183-224 (spire:18322, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(86)90624-3)

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 electro-magnetic duality/S-duality in 4D DBI theory, and variants:

• Gary Gibbons, D. A. Rasheed: Electric-Magnetic Duality Rotations in Non-Linear Electrodynamics, Nucl. Phys. B 454 1-2 (1995) 185-206 [arXiv:hep-th/9506035, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(95)00409-L]

• Gary Gibbons, D. A. Rasheed: $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ Invariance of Non-Linear Electrodynamics Coupled to An Axion and a Dilaton, Phys. Lett. B 365 1-4 (1996) 46-50 [arXiv:hep-th/9509141, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)01272-9]

On open M5-branes intersecting M9-branes in a Yang monopole:

• Eric Bergshoeff, Gary Gibbons, Paul Townsend, Open M5-branes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97:231601 2006 (arXiv:hep-th/0607193, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.231601)

On gravitational lensing? via the Gauss-Bonnet theorem:

• Gary Gibbons and M. C. Werner, Applications of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to gravitational lensing, Class. Quant. Grav. 25, 235009 (2008) (arXiv:0807.0854)

Related $n$Lab entries

• gravity

• M5-brane

• Yang monopole

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