Publications

Publications

  1. The energy operator for infinite statistics
    Comm. Math. Phys. 147 (1992), 211-216
    math.QA/0312488 | MR 93i:81106
  2. A geometrical interpretation of classical W transformations
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill and E Ramos]
    Phys. Lett. B297 (1992), 289-292
    hep-th/9209002 | MR 94f:81047
  3. On a new supersymmetric KdV hierarchy in 2-d quantum supergravity
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    Phys. Lett. B316 (1993), 282-290
    hep-th/9302057 | MR 94j:81259
  4. New supersymmetrizations of the generalized KdV hierarchies
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    Mod. Phys. Lett. A8 (1993), 2125-2134
    hep-th/9303168 | MR 94g:58096
  5. Additional symmetries of supersymmetric KP hierarchies
    Comm. Math. Phys. 165 (1994), 261-280
    hep-th/9309058 | MR 95k:58081
  6. Nonsemisimple Sugawara constructions
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    Phys. Lett. B327 (1994), 40-46
    hep-th/9402035 | MR 95e:81063
  7. On the supersymmetric BKP hierarchy
    [with E Ramos]
    Nucl. Phys. B427 (1994), 338-350
    hep-th/9402056 | MR 95j:58080
  8. Equivariant cohomology and gauged bosonic sigma models
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    hep-th/9407149
  9. Supersymmetric integrable hierarchies and string theory
    Doctoral Dissertation (Bonn 1994)
    hep-th/9407189
  10. Gauged Wess-Zumino terms and equivariant cohomology
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    Phys. Lett.  B341 (1994), 153-159
    hep-th/9407196 | MR 96h:81069
  11. Lie-Poisson groups and the Miura transformation
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    Mod. Phys. Lett. A10 (1995), 2767-2773
    q-alg/9501027 | MR 96k:58110
  12. Nonreductive WZW models and their conformal field theories
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    Nucl. Phys. B458 (1996), 137-164
    hep-th/9506151 | MR 97a:81193
  13. On the structure of symmetric selfdual Lie algebras
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    J. Math. Phys. 37 (1996), 4121-4134
    hep-th/9506152 | MR 98b:17004
  14. Supersymmetric cosets from gauged supersymmetric WZW models
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    Mod. Phys. Lett. A12 (1997) 1677-1685
    hep-th/9511229 | MR 99e:81223
  15. Nonreductive WZW models and their CFTs, 2: N=1 and N=2 cosets
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    Nucl. Phys. B484 (1997), 583-608
    hep-th/9605111 | MR 98j:81311
  16. D-branes in Kazama-Suzuki models
    Nucl. Phys. B526 (1998), 295-310
    hep-th/9708166 | MR 99h:81189
  17. D-branes in curved space-time: Nappi-Witten background
    [with AA Tseytlin]
    JHEP 9806 (1998), 010
    hep-th/9805006 | MR 2001c:81171
  18. Planes, branes and automorphisms, 2: Branes in motion
    [with BS Acharya, JM Figueroa-O'Farrill and WJ Spence]
    JHEP 9807 (1998), 005
    hep-th/9805176 | MR 2000c:81219
  19. D-branes in an AdS3 background
    JHEP 9909 (1999), 028
    hep-th/9901122 | MR 2000j:81233
  20. D-branes in group manifolds
    JHEP 0001 (2000), 025
    hep-th/9909163 | MR 2001i:81242
  21. More D-branes in the Nappi-Witten background
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    JHEP 0001 (2000), 024
    hep-th/9909164 | MR 2001g:81200
  22. D-branes in AdS3 x S3 x S3 x S1
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    JHEP 0004 (2000), 005
    hep-th/0001199 | MR 2001k:81220
  23. A note on D-branes in group manifolds: flux quantisation and D0-charge
    JHEP 0010 (2000), 015
    hep-th/0006145 | MR 2002k:81223
  24. D-brane charge, flux quantisation and relative (co)homology
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    JHEP 0101 (2001), 006
    hep-th/0008038 | MR 2002e:81171
  25. An illustrated guide to D-branes in SU3
    hep-th/0111221
  26. A geometric approach to D-branes in group manifolds
    Fortsch. Phys. 50 (2002), 980-985
    hep-th/0112130 | MR 2003j:81182
  27. Penrose limits of Lie branes and a Nappi-Witten braneworld
    [with JM Figueroa-O'Farrill]
    JHEP 0306 (2003), 025
    hep-th/0303212 | MR 1996689

 

 

By the time Sonia obtained her PhD, she already had two single-author papers published in Communications in Mathematical Physics; the first paper containing a proof of a conjecture of Don Zagier stated in the preceding paper in the same issue of the journal.

Paper [8] was also accepted in Communications in Mathematical Physics, subject to a substantial reduction in size. By the time the referee got around to sending the report, we had already moved on and this revision never took place. (I wonder whether they would still publish the shortened version.)

Paper [25] was submitted to JHEP, but Sonia's illness prevented her from ever responding to the referee, with whose report she largely disagreed. After her death an editor suggested publishing the paper, but not before being modified either "by me or by someone of their choosing" in order to incorporate the wishes of the referee. I believe that a scientific publication is ultimately a form of self-expression and could not in good conscience either pretend to speak on Sonia's behalf or else allow anyone else to do so. The only option was therefore to withdraw the submission from the journal, a decision which was greeted by a condescending email from the editor in which I was lectured on the subject of peer review and on how Sonia's memory should be honoured. Na, ja...

Sonia had been working on the extension of the results of [25] to other Lie groups and had already written a substantial draft.

At last count, paper [20] has received 87 citations and paper [6] has received 70; whereas [19] and [23] have received 50 or more.