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Peter Christopher West is professor of mathematics at King’s college London.

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Selected writings

On supergravity formulated on super spacetime supermanifolds (“superspace”):

• S. James Gates Jr., Kellogg S. Stelle, Peter C. West, Algebraic origins of superspace constraints in supergravity, Nuclear Physics B 169 3–4 (1980) 347-364 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(80)90037-1]

Early construction of type IIA supergravity:

• I. C. G. Campbell, Peter C. West $N = 2$, $D = 10$ non-chiral supergravity and its spontaneous compactification, Nuclear Physics B 243 1 (1984) 112-124 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(84)90388-2]

On the Green-Schwarz mechanism and KK-compactification of heterotic supergravity/heterotic superstring to 6 dimensions (see also at D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT):

• Michael Green, John Schwarz, Pete West, Anomaly-free chiral theories in six dimensions, Nuclear Physics B Volume 254, 1985, Pages 327-348 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90222-6)

On Landau-Ginzburg models in the sense of string theory (sigma models with certain potentials):

• Paul Howe, Peter West, Landau-Ginzburg Hamiltonians, string theory and critical phenomena, in: Proceedings of 25th International Conference on High Energy Physics, Singapore, August 2-8, 1990 [inspire:301119, pdf]

On the fundamental M5-brane Green-Schwarz sigma-model:

• Paul Howe, Ergin Sezgin, Peter West, Covariant Field Equations of the M Theory Five-Brane, Phys. Lett. B 399 (1997) 49-59 [arXiv:hep-th/9702008, doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00257-8]

On obtaining massive type IIA supergravity from a form of 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 deriving the equations of motion for the M5-brane via superspace-methods (superembedding approach):

• Paul Howe, Ergin Sezgin, Peter West, Covariant Field Equations of the M Theory Five-Brane, Phys. Lett. B399 (1997) 49-59 (arXiv:hep-th/9702008)

• Paul S. Howe, Ergin Sezgin, Peter C. West: Aspects of Superembeddings, in: Supersymmetry and Quantum Field Theory, Lecture Notes in Physics 509 (1998) [doi:10.1007/BFb0105230, arXiv:hep-th/9705093]

On intersecting super p-branes:

• C. S. Chu, Paul S. Howe, Ergin Sezgin, Peter C. West: Open superbranes, Physics Letters B 429 3–4 (1998) 273-280 [doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00441-9]

Amplification that the resulting higher gauge field on the M5-brane is not naively self-dual:

• Paul S. Howe, Ergin Sezgin, Peter C. West, The six-dimensional self-dual tensor, Physics Letters B 400 3–4 (1997) 255-259 [doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00365-1]

On E11-exceptional generalized geometry for D=11 supergravity/M-theory:

• Peter West, $E_{11}$ and M theory, Class. Quant. Grav., 18:4443–4460, 2001 (arXiv:hep-th/0104081)

• Peter West: $E_{11}$, $SL(32)$ and Central Charges, Phys. Lett. B 575 (2003) 333-342 [arXiv:hep-th/0307098, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.09.059]

• Peter West, $E_{11}$ origin of Brane charges and U-duality multiplets, JHEP 0408 (2004) 052 (arXiv:hep-th/0406150)

• Peter West, $E_{11}$, ten forms and supergravity, JHEP0603:072,2006 (arXiv:hep-th/0511153)

On the derivation of the equations of motion of 11D supergravity and maximally supersymmetric 5d supergravity from an exceptional vielbein with values in the semidirect product $E_{11}$ with its fundamental representation:

• Peter West: Generalised geometry, eleven dimensions and $E_{11}$, J. High Energ. Phys. 2012 (2012) 18 [arXiv:1111.1642, doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2012)018]

• Alexander G. Tumanov, Peter West: $E_{11}$ must be a symmetry of strings and branes, Physics Letters B 759 10 (2016) 663-671 [arXiv:1512.01644, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.06.011]

• Alexander G. Tumanov, Peter West: $E_{11}$ in $11d$, Physics Letters B 758 (2016) 278285 [arXiv:1601.03974, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.04.058]

Review

• Peter West: A brief review of E theory, in: Memorial Volume on Abdus Salam’s 90th Birthday, World Scientific (2017) 135-176 [arXiv:1609.06863, doi:10.1142/9789813144873_0009]

Discussion of the dual graviton in terms of E11 U-duality:

• Peter West, section N (pp. 19) of Generalised geometry, eleven dimensions and $E_{11}$ (arXiv:1111.1642)

• Keith Glennon, Peter West, Gravity, Dual Gravity and $A_1^{+++}$ (arXiv:2004.03363)

• Nicolas Boulanger, Paul P. Cook, Josh A. O’Connor, Peter West, Higher dualisations of linearised gravity and the $A_1^{+++}$ algebra [arXiv:2208.11501&rbrack

On basics of string theory:

• Peter West, Introduction to Strings and Branes, Cambridge University Press (2012) [doi:10.1017/CBO9781139045926]

On $E_{11}$-exceptional field theory:

• Alexander G. Tumanov, Peter West: $E_{11}$ and exceptional field theory, International Journal of Modern Physics A 31 12 (2016) 1650066 [arXiv:1507.08912, doi:10.1142/S0217751X16500664]

On Abdus Salam and the early history of supersymmetry:

• Peter West: Memories of Abdus Salam and the early days of supersymmetry [arXiv:2403.13453]

Related entries

• U-duality, E11

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