nLab Paolo Di Vecchia

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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]

On the theta angle in QCD:

• Rodney Crewther, Paolo Di Vecchia, Gabriele Veneziano, Edward Witten, Chiral estimate of the electric dipole moment of the neutron in quantum chromodynamics, Phys. Lett. B 88 (1979) 123-127 (CERN).

The lattice-formulation of the $\mathbb{C}P^N$-model:

• Paolo Di Vecchia, A. Holtkamp, R. Musto, F. Nicodemi, R. Pettorini, Lattice $CP^{N-1}$ models and their large-$N$ behaviour, Nuclear Physics B 190 4 (1981) 719-733 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(81)90047-X]

On the early history of string theory:

• Andrea Cappelli, Elena Castellani, Filippo Colomo, Paolo Di Vecchia (eds.), The Birth of String Theory, Cambridge University Press (2012) [doi:10.1017/CBO9780511977725]

• Paolo Di Vecchia, The birth of string theory [arXiv:0704.0101]

  published as: From the S-matrix to string theory, Section 11 in: Paolo Di Vecchia et al. (eds.), The Birth of String Theory, Campridge University Press (2011) 156-178 [doi:10.1017/CBO9780511977725]

• Paolo Di Vecchia: The birth of string theory, PhT Colloquium (April 2025) [video:YT]

On Lars Brink:

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

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