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Selected writings

On D-branes in type 0 string theory:

• Ralph Blumenhagen, Anamaria Font, Dieter Lüst: Non-Supersymmetric Gauge Theories from D-Branes in Type 0 String Theory, Nucl. Phys. B 560 (1999) 66-92 [arXiv:hep-th/9906101, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00443-5]

On intersecting D-brane models:

• Ralph Blumenhagen, Mirjam Cvetic, Paul Langacker, Gary Shiu, Towards Realistic Intersecting D-Brane Models, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 55 (2005) 71-139 [arXiv:hep-th/0502005, doi:10.1146/annurev.nucl.55.090704.151541]

On conformal field theory:

• Ralph Blumenhagen, Erik Plauschinn, Introduction to Conformal Field Theory – With Applications to String Theory, Lecture Notes in Physics 779, Springer (2009) [doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00450-6]

On string theory:

• Ralph Blumenhagen, Dieter Lüst, Stefan Theisen, Basic Concepts of String Theory, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Springer (2013) [doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29497-6]

On the relation between Cobordism cohomology and D-brane charge quantization in K-theory in view of the “swampland conjectures”:

• Ralph Blumenhagen, Niccolò Cribiori, Open-Closed Correspondence of K-theory and Cobordism, J. High Energ. Phys. 2022 37 (2022) [arXiv:2112.07678, doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2022)037]

• Ralph Blumenhagen, Niccolò Cribiori, Christian Kneissl, Andriana Makridou, Dimensional Reduction of Cobordism and K-theory, Journal of High Energy Physics 2023, 181, [doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2023)181, arXiv:2208.01656]

• Ralph Blumenhagen, Nullifying Cobordism in Quantum Gravity, talk at QFT and Cobordism, CQTS (Mar 2023) $[$web, slides: pdf, video: YT]

On the BFSS matrix model in relation to M5-branes:

• Manuel Artime, Ralph Blumenhagen, Thomas Raml: A Novel Matrix Model for the M5-brane? [arXiv:2607.05490]

• Manuel Artime, Ralph Blumenhagen, Thomas Raml: A Quantum-Mechanical Model for the M5-Brane [arXiv:2609.25207]

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