nLab Luis Alvarez-Gaumé

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Selected writings

On quantum anomalies:

• Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, Edward Witten, Gravitational Anomalies Nucl. Phys. B234 (1984) 269 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(84)90066-X, spire:192309)

• Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, Paul Ginsparg, The structure of gauge and gravitational anomalies, Ann. Phys. 161 (1985) 423. (doi:10.1016/0003-4916(85)90087-9, spire:202565)

and specifically on the Green-Schwarz mechanism:

• Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, Miguel A. Vázquez-Mozo, Anomalies and the Green-Schwarz Mechanism, in: Handbook of Quantum Gravity, Springer (2023) [arXiv:2211.06467]

On the action of the modular group on spin structures over closed surfaces in relation to theta functions and string amplitudes:

• Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, Gregory Moore, Cumrun Vafa: Theta functions, modular invariance, and strings, Commun. Math. Phys. 106 (1986) 1–40 [doi:10.1007/BF01210925, eculid:cmp/1104115581]

On the Chern-Simons level renormalization (shift by the dual Coxeter number):

• Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, J. M. F. Labastida, A. V. Ramallo, A note on perturbative Chern-Simons theory, Nuclear Physics B 334 1 (1990) 103-124 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(90)90658-Z)

On T-duality:

• E. Alvarez, Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, Yolanda Lozano: An Introduction to T-Duality in String Theory, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 41 (1995) 1-20 [arXiv:hep-th/9410237, doi:10.1016/0920-5632(95)00429-D]

On duality in physics and specifically duality in string theory:

• Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, Frederic Zamora, Section IV.B of: Duality in Quantum Field Theory (and String Theory), AIP Conference Proceedings 423, 46 (1998) (arXiv:hep-th/9709180)

On (effective field theory) quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics:

• Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, Miguel A. Vázquez-Mozo, Lectures on Field Theory and the Standard Model: A Symmetry-Oriented Approach [arXiv:2306.08097]

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