ANDREW WALDRON
Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Physics)
Department of Mathematics
University of California, Davis
CURRICULUM VITAE
PUBLICATIONS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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SUPERSYMMETRIC QUANTUM MECHANICS AND SUPER-LICHNEROWICZ
ALGEBRAS
K. Hallowell and A. Waldron:
Communications in Mathematical Physics – To Appear
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MINIMAL RERESENTATIONS, SPHERICAL VECTORS AND EXCEPTIONAL
THETA SERIES
D. Kazhdan, B. Pioline and A.Waldron: Commun. Math. Phys. 226
(2002) 1.
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PARTIAL MASSLESSNESS OF HIGHER SPINS IN A(dS)
S. Deser and A. Waldron: Nucl. Phys. B607 (2001) 577
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THE MATRIX THEORY S-MATRIX
J. Plefka, M. Serone, A.Waldron: Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 (1998)
2866
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Most Recent: Quantum Attractor Flows,
M. Gunaydin, A. Neitzke, B. Pioline and A. Waldron (Submitted to JHEP)
In this paper, we quantize stationary, spherically symmetric,
black holes in N=2 supergravity. The key observation is that including
the Killing spinor as a dynamical degree of freedom lifts quaternionic
Kaehler geodesic motion of black hole moduli to holomorphic
geodesic motion in twistor space. This allows a detailed study of
ground state wave functions and black hole quantization.
INTERESTS
My work is at the interface of theoretical physics and
mathematics. Key themes are trying to understand the fundamental
theories which describe our universe and its particle content.
This most often means deciphering complicated mathematical
concepts using the language of physics. Some specific problems I
have and am working on are: describing the basic degrees of
freedom of M theory using M(atrix) theory and membranes; higher
spin theories; supersymmetric quantum mechanical
descriptions of geometry and minisuperspace approximations for
cosmological and black hole physics.
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