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Michael Green is professor for theoretical physics at Cambridge. Together with John Schwarz he is one of the founding fathers of string theory.
Quotes
On the computation of the anomaly cancellation now known as the Green-Schwarz mechanism in heterotic string theory (also known as The First Superstring Revolution):
MICHAEL GREEN: I do remember a particular moment, when John Schwarz and I were talking at the blackboard and working out these numbers which had to fit, and they just had to match exactly. I remember joking with John Schwarz at that moment, because there was thunder and lightning – there was a big mountain storm in Aspen at that moment – and I remember saying something like, you know, “We must be getting pretty close, because the gods are trying to prevent us completing this calculation.” And, indeed, they did match.
(Taken from NOVA - The Elegant Universe - Transcript)
Selected writings
Early argument that the RR-field flux density-expressions for D-brane charge are of the form of Chern characters on topological K-theory, leading to the K-theory classification of D-brane charge:
- Michael Green, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Gregory Moore, I-Brane Inflow and Anomalous Couplings on D-Branes, Class. Quant. Grav. 14 (1997) 47-52 [[arXiv:hep-th/9605033](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605033), doi:10.1088/0264-9381/14/1/008]
Popular exposition of string theory:
- Michael Green, Superstrings, Scientific American Scientific American Vol. 255, No. 3 (September 1986), pp. 48-63 (jstor:24976036)
On the Green-Schwarz superstring:
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Michael Green, John Schwarz, Supersymmetrical Dual String Theory, Nucl. Phys. B 181 (1981) 502;
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Michael Green, John Schwarz, Supersymmetrical Dual String Theory. 2. Vertices and Trees, Nucl. Phys. B 198 (1982) 252.
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Michael Green, John Schwarz, Covariant description of superstrings, Phys. Lett. B136 (1984), 367–370 (spire:193596, arXiv;10.1016/0370-2693(84)92021-5)
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Michael Green, John Schwarz, Properties of the Covariant Formulation of Superstring Theories, Nucl. Phys. B 243 (1984) 285 (spire:196623, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(84)90030-0)
On the Green-Schwarz mechanism of anomaly cancellation in heterotic string theory:
- Michael Green, John Schwarz, Anomaly Cancellation in Supersymmetric D=10D=10 Gauge Theory and Superstring Theory, Phys. Lett. B 149 (1984) 117-122 (spire:15583, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)91565-X)
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)
- Michael Green, Neil Lambert, George Papadopoulos, Paul Townsend, Dyonic pp-branes from self-dual (p+1)(p+1)-branes, Phys.Lett.B384:86-92, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9605146)
On black\,D8-brane-solutions in massive type IIA supergravity/massive type IIA string theory:
- Eric Bergshoeff, Mees de Roo, Michael Green, George Papadopoulos, Paul Townsend, Duality of Type II 7-branes and 8-branes, Nucl. Phys. B470:113-135, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9601150)
On type I' string theory and geometric engineering of QFT on D3-D5 brane intersections subject to the s-rule:
- Constantin Bachas, Michael Green, Adam Schwimmer, Section 2.3 of: (8,0)(8,0) Quantum mechanics and symmetry enhancement in type I’ superstrings, JHEP 9801 :006, 1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9712086)
and related to the Pauli exclusion principle:
- Constantin Bachas, Michael Green, A Classical Manifestation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle, JHEP 9801 (1998) 015 (arXiv:hep-th/9712187)
On higher curvature corrections to the (abelian) DBI-action for D-branes:
- Constantin Bachas, P. Bain, Michael Green, Curvature terms in D-brane actions and their M-theory origin, JHEP 9905:011, 1999 (arXiv:hep-th/9903210)
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