nLab Lars Brink

Lars Brink (1949-2022)

• Wikipedia entry

• Hermann Nicolai: Lars Brink 1943–2022, CernCourier (1 Mar 2023):

• Bengt E. W. Nilsson, Björn Jonson: Lars Brink – November 12, 1943 - October 29, 2022 [arXiv:2403.03776]

• George Savvidy: Lars Brink Colleague, Friend and Collaborator [arXiv:2408.09374]

• Paolo Di Vecchia: Remembering Lars Brink and some of his work [arXiv:2501.02498]

Selected writings

Making manifest the local worldsheet supersymmetry of the spinning string (via the supersymmetric Polyakov action):

• Lars Brink, Paolo Di Vecchia, Paul Howe, A locally supersymmetric and reparametrization invariant action for the spinning string , Physics Letters B 65 Issue 5, 20 (1976) 471-474 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(76)90445-7]

On spinning particles and their worldline supersymmetry:

• Lars Brink, Paolo Di Vecchia, Paul Howe, A Lagrangian formulation of the classical and quantum dynamics of spinning particles, Nucl. Phys. B 118 (1977) 76 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(77)90364-9]

A superspace-formulation of D=4 N=8 supergravity with manifest $SU(8)$-U-duality (exceptional field theory):

• Lars Brink, Paul Howe: The $N = 8$ supergravity in superspace, Physics Letters B 88 3–4 (1979) 268-272 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(79)90464-7]

Formulation of D=11 supergravity in superspace (via supergeometry):

• Lars Brink, Paul Howe, Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity on the Mass-Shell in Superspace, Phys.Lett. B 91 (1980) 384 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(80)91002-3]

On the history of string theory as a theory of hadrons in QCD:

• Lars Brink, Hadronic Strings – A Revisit in the Shade of Moonshine, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 53 (2020) 091001 [arxiv:1911.06026, doi:10.1088/1751-8121/ab6b93]

On historical work by Yoichiro Nambu on the Ising model:

• Lars Brink, Pierre Ramond, Nambu and the Ising Model [arXiv:2209.01122]

Related entriees

• string theory

• 11-dimensional supergravity

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