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StonyBrook | KUL | Bonn | QMW | Edinburgh

The recent years

  1. More D-branes in the Nappi-Witten background
    [with Sonia Stanciu]
    JHEP 01 (2000) 024 (16 pages)
    hep-th/9909164 | MR 2001g:81200
  2. More Ricci-flat branes
    Phys. Lett. B471 (2000) 128-132
    hep-th/9910086 | MR 2001g:83115
  3. D-Branes in AdS3 x S3 x S3 x S1
    [with Sonia Stanciu]
    JHEP 04 (2000) 005 (19 pages)
    hep-th/0001199 | MR 2001k:81220
  4. D-brane charge, flux quantisation and relative (co)homology
    [with Sonia Stanciu]
    JHEP 01 (2001) 006 (16 pages)
    hep-th/0008038 | MR 2002e:81171
  5. Homogeneous fluxes, branes and a maximally supersymmetric solution of M-theory
    [with George Papadopoulos]
    JHEP 06 (2001) 036 (26 pages)
    hep-th/0105308 | MR 2002h:81246
  6. Maximal supersymmetry in ten and eleven dimensions
    Proceedings of the workshop Special geometric structures in string theory, Bonn, September 2001.
    math.DG/0109162
  7. Generalised supersymmetric fluxbranes
    [with Joan Simón]
    JHEP 12 (2001) 011 (26 pages)
    hep-th/0110170 | MR 2003e:81150
  8. A new maximally supersymmetric background of IIB superstring theory
    [with Matthias Blau, Chris Hull and George Papadopoulos]
    JHEP 01 (2002) 047 (16 pages)
    hep-th/0110242 | MR 2003m:81168
  9. Conformal topological Yang-Mills theory and de Sitter holography
    [with Paul de Medeiros, Chris Hull and Bill Spence]
    JHEP 08 (2002) 055 (31 pages)
    hep-th/0111190 | MR 2004h:81222
  10. Appendix in An illustrated guide to D-branes in SU3
    [with Sonia Stanciu]
    hep-th/0111221
  11. Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry
    [with Matthias Blau, Chris Hull and George Papadopoulos]
    Class. Quant. Grav. 19 (2002) L87-L95
    hep-th/0201081 | MR 2003d:83106
    Nominated by the Editors of CQG among the Highlights of 2001 and 2002
  12. Penrose limits, supergravity and brane dynamics
    [with Matthias Blau and George Papadopoulos]
    Class. Quant. Grav. 19 (2002) 4753-4805
    hep-th/0202111 | MR 2003m:83140
  13. Supersymmetric Kaluza-Klein reductions of M2- and M5-branes
    [with Joan Simón]
    Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 6 (2003) 703-793
    hep-th/0208107 | MR 1969656
  14. Supersymmetric Kaluza-Klein reductions of M-waves and MKK-monopoles
    [with Joan Simón]
    Class. Quant. Grav. 19 (2002) 6147-6174
    Corrigendum: ibid. 21 (2004) 337
    hep-th/0208108 | MR 2003j:83113
  15. Maximally supersymmetric solutions to ten- and eleven-dimensional supergravities
    [with George Papadopoulos]
    JHEP 03 (2003) 048 (25 pages)
    hep-th/0211089 | MR 2004a:83081
  16. Plücker-type relations for orthogonal planes
    [with George Papadopoulos]
    J. Geom. Phys. 49 (2004) 294-331
    math.AG/0211170 | MR 2076747
  17. Penrose limits of Lie branes and a Nappi-Witten braneworld
    [with Sonia Stanciu]
    JHEP 06 (2003) 025 (21 pages)
    hep-th/0303212 | MR 1996689
  18. On parallelisable NS-NS backgrounds
    Class. Quant. Grav. 20 (2003) 3327-3340
    hep-th/0305079 | MR 2004c:83144
  19. Supergravity vacua and lorentzian Lie groups
    [with Ali Chamseddine and Wafic Sabra]
    hep-th/0306278
  20. Parallelisable heterotic backgrounds
    [with Teruhiko Kawano and Satoshi Yamaguchi]
    JHEP 10 (2003)  012 (22 pages)
    hep-th/0308141 | MR 2030774
  21. Supersymmetric Kaluza-Klein reductions of AdS backgrounds
    [with Joan Simón]
    Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 8 (2004) 217-317
    hep-th/0401206 | MR 2086923
  22. Quotients of AdSp+1 x Sq: causally well-behaved spaces and black holes
    [with Owen Madden, Simon Ross and Joan Simón]
    Phys. Rev. D 69 (2004) 124026 (29 pages)
    hep-th/0402094 | MR 2096178
  23. Supersymmetry and homogeneity in M-theory backgrounds
    [with Patrick Meessen and Simon Philip]
    Class. Quant. Grav. 22 (2005) 207-226
    hep-th/0409170 | MR 2123542
    Mathematica Notebook
  24. Homogeneity and plane-wave limits
    [with Patrick Meessen and Simon Philip]
    JHEP 05 (2005)  050 (42 pages)
    hep-th/0504069 | MR 2155055
  25. Gauging the Wess-Zumino term of a sigma model with boundary
    [with Noureddine Mohammedi]
    JHEP 08 (2005)  086 (22 pages)
    hep-th/0506049 | MR 2166110
  26. Supersymmetry and spin structures
    [with Sunil Gadhia]
    Class. Quant. Grav. 22 (2005) L121-L126
    hep-th/0506229 | MR 2173739
  27. M-theory preons cannot arise by quotients
    [with Sunil Gadhia]
    JHEP 06 (2007)  043 (22 pages)
    hep-th/0702055
  28. Lorentzian symmetric spaces in supergravity
    Recent developments in pseudo-riemannian geometry
    Proceedings of the programme Geometry of pseudo-riemannian manifolds with application to physics, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, September-December 2005.
    math.DG/0702205
  29. The Killing superalgebra of ten-dimensional supergravity backgrounds
    [with Emily Hackett-Jones and George Moutsopoulos]
    Class. Quant. Grav. 24 (2007) 3291-3308
    hep-th/0703192
  30. The return of the four- and five-dimensional preons
    [with Jan Gutowski and Wafic Sabra]
    Class. Quant. Grav. 24 (2007) 4429-4438
    arXiv:0705.2778 [hep-th]
  31. Deformations of M-theory Killing superalgebras
    Class. Quant. Grav. 24 (2007) 5257-5276
    arXiv:0706.2600 [hep-th]
  32. A geometric construction of the exceptional Lie algebras F4 and E8
    Comm. Math. Phys. 283 (2008) 663-674
    arXiv:0706.2829 [math.DG]
  33. Killing superalgebra deformations of ten-dimensional supergravity backgrounds
    [with Bert Vercnocke]
    Class. Quant. Grav. 24 (2007) 6041-6070
    arXiv:0708.3738 [hep-th]
  34. Lorentzian Lie 3-algebras and their Bagger-Lambert moduli space
    [with Paul de Medeiros and Elena Méndez-Escobar]
    JHEP 07 (2008)  111 (27 pages)
    arXiv:0805.4363 [hep-th]
  35. Lorentzian Lie n-algebras
    J. Math. Phys. 49 (2008)  113509 (8 pages)
    arXiv:0805.4760 [math.RT]
  36. Metric Lie 3-algebras in Bagger-Lambert theory
    [with Paul de Medeiros and Elena Méndez-Escobar]
    JHEP 08 (2008)  045 (38 pages)
    arXiv:0806.3242 [hep-th]
  37. Metric Lie n-algebras and double extensions
    arXiv:0806.3534 [math.RT]
  38. On the Lie-algebraic origins of metric 3-algebras
    [with Paul de Medeiros, Elena Méndez-Escobar and Patricia Ritter]
    CMP 290 (2009)  871-902
    arXiv:0809.1086 [hep-th]
  39. On the maximal superalgebras of supersymmetric backgrounds
    [with Emily Hackett-Jones, George Moutsopoulos and Joan Simón]
    CQG 26 (2009)  035016 (17 pages)
    arXiv:0809.5034 [hep-th]
    Nominated by the Editors of CQG among the Highlights of 2008 and 2009
  40. The homogeneity conjecture for supergravity backgrounds
    J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 175 (2009)  012002 (15 pages)
    arXiv:0812.1258 [hep-th]
  41. Three lectures on 3-algebras
    arXiv:0812.2865 [hep-th]
  42. Metric 3-Lie algebras for unitary Bagger-Lambert theories
    [with Paul de Medeiros, Elena Méndez-Escobar and Patricia Ritter]
    JHEP 04 (2009)  037 (38 pages)
    arXiv:0902.4674 [hep-th]
  43. Deformations of 3-algebras
    J. Math. Phys. 50 (2009)  113514 (27 pages)
    arXiv:0903.4871 [hep-th]
  44. Simplicity in the Faulkner construction
    J Phys A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009)  445206 (13 pages)
    arXiv:0905.4900 [hep-th]
  45. Superpotentials for superconformal Chern-Simons theories from representation theory
    [with Paul de Medeiros and Elena Méndez-Escobar]
    J Phys A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009)  485204 (56 pages)
    arXiv:0908.2125 [hep-th]
  46. M2-branes, Einstein manifolds and triple systems
    AIP Conf. Proc. 1196 (2009)  90–103
    arXiv:0908.2860 [hep-th]
  47. Half-BPS quotients in M-theory: ADE with a twist
    [with Paul de Medeiros, Sunil Gadhia and Elena Méndez-Escobar]
    JHEP 10 (2009)  038 (19 pages)
    arXiv:0909.0163 [hep-th]
  48. Half-BPS M2-brane orbifolds
    [with Paul de Medeiros]
    arXiv:1007.4761 [hep-th]
  49. Symmetric M-theory backgrounds
    Cent. Eur. J. Phys. 11 (2013)  1-36 (36 pages)
    arXiv:1112.4967 [hep-th]
  50. The homogeneity theorem for supergravity backgrounds
    [with Noel Hustler]
    JHEP 10 (2012)  014 (9 pages)
    arXiv:1208.0553 [hep-th]
  51. Symmetric backgrounds of type IIB supergravity
    [with Noel Hustler]
    Class. Quantum Grav. 30 (2013)  045008 (36 pages)
    arXiv:1209.4884 [hep-th]
StonyBrook | KUL | Bonn | QMW | Edinburgh

Numbers [71] and higher were written while a lecturer, a reader and then a professor at the School of Mathematics of the University of Edinburgh.

The effect of the onset of full-time teaching, without the concomitant improvement in time-management skills, can be clearly felt in the relatively few papers I wrote during the three academic years 1998-2001. I then went on a much needed sabbatical!

Paper [82] was featured in March 2004 as an ESI hot new paper; although by that time it had cooled down considerably.

Papers [77], [83-4] and [91], and to a certain extent [92], form part of a research programme that Joan Simón and I started in 2001. That collaboration has spanned what has been a very difficult time for me personally, and if we have achieved what we set out to do, it is due in no small part to Joan's patience at a time of his professional life when, as a postdoc, production was paramount.
(Moltes gràcies, Joan!)

Thanks indeed to all my collaborators, to some of whom I'm linked by bonds of friendship which have outlasted our common scientific interests:

Takashi Kimura
Alvaro Díaz
Stany Schrans
Kris Thielemans
Eduardo Ramos
Javier Mas
Sonia Stanciu
Chris Hull
Leonardo Palacios
Arkady Vaintrob
Chris Koehl
Bill Spence
Bobby Acharya
Martin O'Loughlin
Ali Imaanpur
Jim McCarthy
George Papadopoulos
Joan Simón
Matthias Blau
Paul de Medeiros
Ali Chamseddine
Wafic Sabra
Kawano Teruhiko
Yamaguchi Satoshi
Owen Madden
Simon Ross
Patrick Meessen
Simon Philip
Noureddine Mohammedi
Sunil Gadhia
Emily Hackett-Jones
George Moutsopoulos
Jan Gutowski
Bert Vercnocke
Elena Méndez-Escobar
Patricia Ritter
Noel Hustler

© José Figueroa-O'Farrill