Christopher Hull

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Christopher Michael Hull , known as Chris Hull, is a British theoretical physicist who studies string theory , supergravity, and related concepts such as M-theory . He is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.

Life

In the 1990s he was at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

His work with Paul Townsend on superstring dualities in 1994 (in which they showed the equivalence of previously viewed as separate superstring theories in certain special cases) was one of the triggers of the so-called Second Superstring Revolution.

In the laudatory speech for admission to the Royal Society, his work with Michael R. Douglas at the end of the 1990s on non-commutative geometry in M-theory and his investigations into the UV divergences of supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models, as well as his classification of the supersymmetric models, were highlighted Vacuum of 11-dimensional supergravity, where he found a special role for the holonomy group SL (32, R).

Hull is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society (2012), whose Wolfson Research Merit Award he received in 2002. In 2003 he received the Dirac Medal (IOP) . In 1987 he received an Advanced Research Fellowship from the SERC and in 1996 a Senior Research Fellowship from its successor organization.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ CM Hull, PK Townsend: Unity of superstring dualities. In: Nuclear Physics. B, Vol. 238, 1995, pp. 109-137.
  2. ↑ Michael R. Douglas, Chris Hull: D-branes and the non-commutative torus. In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 1998. arxiv : hep-th / 9711165
  3. ↑ For example CM Hull: Ultra-violet finiteness of supersymmetric non linear sigma-models. In: Nuclear Physics B, Volume 260, 1985, pp. 182-202, deals with the N = 4 theory in d = 2
  4. ↑ Chris Hull: Holonomy and Symmetry in M-Theory. Preprint 2003, arxiv : hep-th / 0305039 . SL (32, R) is the real special linear group in 32 dimensions.
personal data
SURNAME Hull, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hull, Chris; Hull, Christopher Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century