Co-founder of string theory.
Interview by D. Zierler, AIP Oral History Interviews, July 2020
On the NSR superstring:
On the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism:
Joël Scherk, John Schwarz, Spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry through dimensional reduction, Physics Letters B Volume 82, Issue 1, 12 March 1979, Pages 60-64 (doi:10.1016/0370-2693(79)90425-8)
Joël Scherk, John Schwarz, How to get masses from extra dimensions, in: Supergravities in Diverse Dimensions, pp. 1282-1309 (1989) (doi:10.1142/9789814542340_0083)
On the Green-Schwarz superstring:
Michael Green, John Schwarz, Supersymmetrical Dual String Theory, Nucl. Phys. B 181 (1981) 502;
Michael Green, John Schwarz, Supersymmetrical Dual String Theory. 2. Vertices and Trees, Nucl. Phys. B 198 (1982) 252.
Michael Green, John Schwarz, Covariant description of superstrings, Phys. Lett. B136 (1984), 367–370 (spire:193596, arXiv;10.1016/0370-2693(84)92021-5)
Michael Green, John Schwarz, Properties of the Covariant Formulation of Superstring Theories, Nucl. Phys. B 243 (1984) 285 (spire:196623, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(84)90030-0)
On the Green-Schwarz mechanism of anomaly cancellation in heterotic string theory:
On the Green-Schwarz mechanism and KK-compactification of heterotic supergravity/heterotic superstring to 6 dimensions (see also at D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT):
On anomaly cancellation in supergravity/string theory:
Review of the Green-Schwarz superstring on in light of the AdS/CFT correspondence:
On the self-dual string:
On T-duality in M-theory (F-theory):
On the Perry-Schwarz action for the Green-Schwarz sigma-model of the M5-brane with the self-dual higher gauge field after KK-compactification to 5d (and double dimensional reduction to the D4-brane):
Malcolm Perry, John Schwarz, Interacting Chiral Gauge Fields in Six Dimensions and Born-Infeld Theory, Nucl. Phys. B489 (1997) 47-64 (arXiv:hep-th/9611065)
John Schwarz, Coupling a Self-Dual Tensor to Gravity in Six Dimensions, Phys. Lett. B395:191-195, 1997 (pdf, doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00094-4)
Mina Aganagic, Jaemo Park, Costin Popescu, John Schwarz, World-Volume Action of the M Theory Five-Brane (arXiv:hep-th/9701166)
On Green-Schwarz sigma-models for D-branes:
Early review of M-theory and AdS/CFT duality:
Review of dualities in string theory:
On the history of string theory:
John Schwarz, The Early Years of String Theory: A Personal Perspective (arXiv:0708.1917), published as Gravity, unification, and the superstring, in Filippo Colomo, Paolo Di Vecchia (eds.) The birth of string theory, Cambridge University Press, (2011) (doi:10.1017/CBO9780511977725.005)
(on the early history of string theory up to the “first superstring revolution”, the construction of the Green-Schwarz-anomaly-free type I string theory and heterotic string)
John Schwarz, The Second Superstring Revolution, Colloquium-level lecture presented at the Sakharov Conference (Moscow, May 1996), in: Proceedings of COSMION 96: 2nd International Conference on Cosmo Particle Physics Dedicated to the 75th Anniversary of Andrei D. Sakharov. 1996. (arXiv:hep-th/9607067, spire:969846)
(on the “second superstring revolution”: the realization of D-branes, dualities in string theory and M-theory)
Textbook account of perturbative string theory and M-theory/F-theory:
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