nLab Neil Lambert

Neil Lambert is professor for theoretical physics at King’s College London.

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Selected writings

On obtaining massive type IIA supergravity from a form o D=11 supergravity:

• Paul S. Howe, Neil D. Lambert, Peter C. West, A New Massive Type IIA Supergravity From Compactification, Phys. Lett. B 416 (1998) 303-308 [arXiv:hep-th/9707139, doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01199-4]

On the 3-brane in 6d as a black brane in an M5-brane/NS5-brane worldvolume

• Paul Howe, Neil Lambert, Peter West, The Threebrane Soliton of the M-Fivebrane, Phys. Lett. B419 (1998) 79-83 (arXiv:hep-th/9710033)

and of its relation to D=4 N=2 super Yang-Mills theory:

• Paul Howe, Neil Lambert, Peter West, Classical M-Fivebrane Dynamics and Quantum $N=2$ Yang-Mills, Phys. Lett. B418 (1998) 85-90 (arXiv:hep-th/9710034)

• Neil Lambert, Peter West, Gauge Fields and M-Fivebrane Dynamics, Nucl. Phys. B524 (1998) 141-158 (arXiv:hep-th/9712040)

• Neil Lambert, Peter West, $N=2$ Superfields and the M-Fivebrane, Phys. Lett. B424 (1998) 281-287 (arXiv:hep-th/9801104)

• Neil Lambert, Peter West, Monopole Dynamics from the M-Fivebrane, Nucl. Phys. B556 (1999) 177-196 (arXiv:hep-th/9811025)

On Dp-D(p+2) brane intersections (such as D1-D3 brane intersections) as spikes/BIons from the M5-brane:

• Paul Howe, Neil Lambert, Peter West, The Self-Dual String Soliton, Nucl. Phys. B515 (1998) 203-216 (arXiv:hep-th/9709014)

On multiple M2-branes and the BLG model/ABJM model of their worldvolume theory:

• Jonathan Bagger, Neil Lambert, Modeling Multiple M2’s, Phys. Rev. D75, 045020 (2007). (hep-th/0611108).

• Jonathan Bagger, Neil Lambert, Gauge Symmetry and Supersymmetry of Multiple M2-Branes, Phys. Rev. D77, 065008 (2008). (arXiv:0711.0955)

• Neil Lambert, David Tong, Membranes on an Orbifold, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101:041602, 2008 (arXiv:0804.1114)

• Jonathan Bagger, Neil Lambert, Sunil Mukhi, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Multiple Membranes in M-theory, Physics Reports, Volume 527, Issue 1, 1 June 2013, Pages 1-100 (arXiv:1203.3546, doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2013.01.006)

• Neil Lambert, M-Theory and Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol. 62:285-313 (arXiv:1203.4244, doi:10.1146/annurev-nucl-102010-130248)

• Neil Lambert, Lessons from M2’s and Hopes for M5’s, Proceedings of the LMS-EPSRC Durham Symposium: Higher Structures in M-Theory 2018 Fortschritte der Physik, 2019 (arXiv:1903.02825, slides pdf, video recording)

and specifically in relation to heterotic M-theory:

• Neil Lambert, Heterotic M2-branes, Physics Letters B Volume 749, 7 October 2015, Pages 363-367 (arXiv:1507.07931)

On D1-D5-brane bound states:

• Neil Lambert, D-brane Bound States and the Generalised ADHM Construction, Nucl. Phys. B519 (1998) 214-224 (arXiv:hep-th/9707156)

On M2-M5 brane bound states:

• José M. Izquierdo, Neil Lambert, George Papadopoulos, Paul Townsend, Dyonic Membranes, Nucl. Phys. B 460 (1996) 560-578 [arXiv:hep-th/9508177, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(95)00606-0]

• Michael Green, Neil Lambert, George Papadopoulos, Paul Townsend, Dyonic $p$-branes from self-dual $(p+1)$-branes, Phys.Lett.B384:86-92, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9605146)

New approach to construction of candidate Lagrangian densities for D=6 N=(2,0) SCFTs:

• Neil Lambert, $(2,0)$ Lagrangian Structures, Physics Letters B Volume 798, 10 November 2019, 134948 (arXiv:1908.10752)

Description of the D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT induced form a non-Lorentz invariant 5d Lagrangian:

• Neil Lambert, Tristan Orchard, Non-Lorentzian Avatars of $(1,0)$ Theories, J. High Energ. Phys. 2021 205 (2021) [arXiv:2011.06968, doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2021)205]

reviewed in:

• Neil Lambert, A non-Lorentzian View of the M5-brane, talk at M-Theory and Mathematics 2023, NYU Abu Dhabi (2023) [web]

Related $n$Lab entries

• BLG model (M2-brane)

• n-Lie algebra

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