Kellogg S. Stelle (1948-2025) was a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, focusing on string theory.
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In 1977 for his thesis he created the theory of quadratic gravity? which he acknowledged as having seemingly insurmountable problems but is experiencing a recent surge in popularity.
Kellogg Stelle, Renormalization of Higher Derivative Quantum Gravity, Phys. Rev. D, 16 (1977) 953, [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.16.953]
Quanta Magazine, 2025, Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback
On supergravity formulated on super spacetime supermanifolds (“superspace”):
On area-preserving diffeomorphisms and :
On area-preserving diffeomorphisms and -algebra:
On black M2-brane-solutions to D=11 supergravity:
On KK-compactification of D=11 supergravity with M9-branes (Hořava-Witten theory) on a Calabi-Yau 3-fold to D=5 supergravity (cf. M-theory on Calabi-Yau 3-folds):
On the Hopf-Wess-Zumino term of the M5-brane:
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 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 M-theory on Calabi-Yau 5-folds and supersymmetric quantum mechanics:
On the work of Mike Duff:
478 (2022) 2259 [doi:10.1098/rspa.2022.0166]
On consistent KK-compactification of D=11 supergravity on Calabi-Yau 3-folds to D=5 supergravity (cf. M-theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds):
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