Staff Profile

Dr Douglas Smith

Contact Dr Douglas Smith (email at douglas.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Research Groups

Department of Mathematical Sciences

• Mathematical Physics

Publications

Journal papers: academic

• Allen, JP & Smith, DJ (2011). Coupling M2-branes to background fields. Journal of High Energy Physics 2011(08): 078.
• Chu, Chong-Sun & Smith, Douglas J. (2010). Multiple Self-Dual Strings on M5-Branes. Journal of high energy physics 2010(01): 01.
• Callister, Andrew K. & Smith, Douglas J. (2009). Topological charges in SL(2,R) covariant massive 11-dimensional and Type IIB supergravity. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 80(12): 125035.
• Chu, Chong-Sun & Smith, Douglas J. (2009). Towards the Quantum Geometry of the M5-brane in a Constant $C$-Field from Multiple Membranes. Journal of High Energy Physics 2009(04): 097.
• Chu, Chong-Sun, Dai, Shou-Huang & Smith, Douglas J. (2008). AdS/CFT Duality for Non-Anticommutative Supersymmetric Gauge Theory. Journal of High Energy Physics 2008(05): 029.
• Callister, Andrew K. & Smith, Douglas J. (2008). Topological BPS charges in 10 and 11-dimensional supergravity. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 78(6): 065042.
• Smith, Douglas J. & Sanchez Loureda, Jose (2006). Central charges of wrapped M5-brane backgrounds. Journal of High Energy Physics
• Patino, Leonardo & Smith, Douglas J. (2005). On the non-existence of totally localised intersections of D3/D5 branes in type IIB SUGRA. JHEP 04: 003.
• Bena, Iosif & Smith, Douglas J. (2005). Towards the solution to the giant graviton puzzle. Physical Review D 71(2): 025005.
• Clunan, Tim, Ross, Simon F. & Smith, Douglas J. (2004). On Gauss-Bonnet black hole entropy. Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(14): 3447-3458.
• Hackett-Jones, Emily J. & Smith, Douglas J. (2004). Type IIB Killing spinors and calibrations. Journal of High Energy Physics 11: 029.
• Smith, Douglas J. (2003). Intersecting brane solutions in string and M-theory. Classical and Quantum Gravity 20: 233-300.
• Hackett-Jones, Emily J., Page, David C. & Smith, Douglas J. (2003). Topological charges for branes in M-theory. JHEP 10: 005.
• Hackett-Jones, Emily J. & Smith, Douglas J. (2002). Giant gravitons as probes of gauged supergravity. JHEP 10: 075.
• Page, David C. & Smith, Douglas J. (2002). Giant gravitons in non-supersymmetric backgrounds. JHEP 07: 028.
• Froggatt, C.D., Nielsen, H.B. & Smith, D.J. (2002). Quantum Numbers of AGUT Higgs Fields from the Quark-Lepton Spectrum. Phys. Rev D65: 095007.
• Brinne, B., Fayyazuddin, A., Husain, T.Z. & Smith, Douglas J. (2001). N=1 M5-brane geometries. Journal of High Energy Physics 03: 052.
• Brinne, B., Fayyazuddin, A., Mukhopadhyay, S. & Smith, D.J. (2000). Supergravity M5-branes wrapped on Riemann surfaces and their QFT duals. JHEP 0012: 013.
• Fayyazuddin, A. & Smith, D.J. (2000). Warped AdS near-horizon geometry of completely localized intersections of M5-branes. JHEP 0010: 023.
• Fayyazuddin, A. & Smith, D.J. (1999). Localized intersections of M5-branes and four-dimensional superconformal field theories. JHEP 9904: 030.
• Karch, A., Lust, D. & Smith, D.J. (1998). Equivalence of Geometric Engineering and Hanany-Witten via Fractional Branes. Nucl. Phys B533: 348-372.
• Froggatt, C.D., Gibson, M., Nielsen, H.B. & Smith, D.J. (1998). Fermion masses, neutrino mixing and CP violation from the anti-grand unification model. Int.J.Mod.Phys A13: 5037-5074.
• Fayyazuddin, A. & Smith, D.J. (1997). A note on T^5/Z_2 compactification of the M-theory matrix model. Phys.Lett B407: 8-11.
• Froggatt, C.D., Nielsen, H.B. & Smith, D.J. (1997). Could there be a Fourth Generation of Quarks Without More Leptons?. Z.Phys C73: 333-337.
• Froggatt, C.D., Nielsen, H.B. & Smith, D.J. (1997). Extending the Standard Model Using Charge Quantisation Rules. Phys.Rev D55: 1592-1610.
• Fayyazuddin, A. & Smith, D.J. (1997). P-brane solutions in IKKT IIB matrix theory. Mod.Phys.Lett A12: 1447-1454.
• Fayyazuddin, A., Makeenko, Y., Olesen, P., Smith, D.J. & Zarembo, K. (1997). Towards a Non-perturbative Formulation of IIB Superstrings by Matrix Models. Nucl.Phys B499: 159-182.
• Froggatt, C.D., Nielsen, H.B. & Smith, D.J. (1996). Fermion Masses and Anti-grand Unification. Phys.Lett B385: 150-158.

Edited works: conference proceedings

• Chu, Chong-Sun & Smith, Douglas J. (Published). Open multiple M2-branes I: Quantum geometry of the M5- brane in a C-field.
• Chu, Chong-Sun & Smith, Douglas J. (2010). Open multiple M2 branes. II: Multiple self-dual strings on M5-branes.
• Smith, Douglas J. (2000). Equivalence of geometric engineering and Hanany-Witten constructions.
• Froggatt, C.D., Gibson, M., Nielsen, Holger Bech & Smith, Douglas J. (1998). The fermion mass problem and the anti-grand unification model.
• Froggatt, C.D., Nielsen, Holger Bech & Smith, Douglas J. (1997). Dynamical determination of the top quark and Higgs masses and fermion masses in the anti-grand unification model.
• Froggatt, C.D., Smith, Douglas J. & Nielsen, Holger Bech (1995). A Fourth generation of quarks without leptons.

Supervises

• Mr Andrew Iskauskas
• Mr Sheng-lan Ko