Lowe, David

David Lowe

Professor of Physics

Overview

Professor Lowe joined the Brown faculty in 1997. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University and Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Princeton University in 1993. He has done postdoctoral research at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and was a Senior Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He is a recipient of a Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award, a BSF research grant, and a NSF travel award. In recent years he has had visiting research positions at U. Tokyo, Max Planck Institute (Potsdam), CINVESTAV (Mexico City), KITP (Santa Barbara) and the Aspen Center for Physics.

Brown Affiliations

Physics

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Lowe, David A., Thorlacius, Larus. "Black hole holography and mean field evolution." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2018, no. 1, 2018.

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Chatterjee, Atreya, Lowe, David A. "BMS symmetry, soft particles and memory." Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 35, no. 9, 2018, pp. 094001.

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Kulchoakrungsun, Ekapob, Lam, Adrian, Lowe, David A. "Effect of the cosmological constant on halo size." Modern Physics Letters A, vol. 33, no. 10n11, 2018, pp. 1850059.

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Basavaraju, Rohitvarma, Lowe, David A. "Black hole mining in the RST model." Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 34, no. 12, 2017, pp. 125015.

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Chatterjee, Atreya, Lowe, David A. "dS/CFT and the operator product expansion." Physical Review D, vol. 96, no. 6, 2017.

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Lowe, David A., Thorlacius, Larus. "A holographic model for black hole complementarity." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2016, no. 12, 2016.

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Chatterjee, Atreya, Lowe, David A. "de Sitter gravity/Euclidean conformal gravity correspondence." Physical Review D, vol. 93, no. 2, 2016.

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Lowe, David A. "Mellin transforming the minimal model CFTs: AdS/CFT at strong curvature." Physics Letters B, vol. 760, 2016, pp. 494-497.

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Avery, Steven G., Lowe, David A. "Typical event horizons in AdS/CFT." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2016, no. 1, 2016.

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Chatterjee, Atreya, Lowe, David A. "Holographic operator mapping indS/CFTand cluster decomposition." Physical Review D, vol. 92, no. 8, 2015.

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Lowe, David A., Thorlacius, Larus. "Quantum information erasure inside black holes." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2015, no. 12, 2015, pp. 1-16.

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Lowe, David A., Thorlacius, Larus. "Black hole complementarity: The inside view." Physics Letters B, vol. 737, 2014, pp. 320-324.

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Lowe, David A., Skanata, Antun, Messamah, Ilies. "Hidden Kerr/CFT correspondence at finite frequencies." Physical Review D, vol. 89, no. 6, 2014.

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Larjo, Klaus, Lowe, David A., Thorlacius, Larus. "Black holes without firewalls." Physical Review D, vol. 87, no. 10, 2013.

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Larjo, Klaus, Lowe, David A. "Loop effects and infrared divergences in slow-roll inflation." Physical Review D, vol. 87, no. 8, 2013.

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Lowe, David A., Thorlacius, Larus. "Pure states and black hole complementarity." Physical Review D, vol. 88, no. 4, 2013.

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Lowe, David A, Skanata, Antun. "Generalized hidden Kerr/CFT." Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, vol. 45, no. 47, 2012, pp. 475401.

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Larjo, Klaus, Lowe, David A. "Initial states and infrared physics in locally de Sitter spacetime." Physical Review D, vol. 85, no. 4, 2012.

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Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A. "Constructing local bulk observables in interacting AdS/CFT." Physical Review D, vol. 83, no. 10, 2011.

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Lowe, David A., Messamah, Ilies, Skanata, Antun. "Scaling dimensions in hidden Kerr/CFT correspondence." Physical Review D, vol. 84, no. 2, 2011.

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Lowe, David A., Roy, Shubho. "Punctuated eternal inflation via AdS/CFT duality." Physical Review D, vol. 82, no. 6, 2010.

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Lowe, David A. "Black hole complementarity from AdS/CFT correspondence." Physical Review D, vol. 79, no. 10, 2009.

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Lowe, David A., Roy, Shubho. "Chiral geometries of (2+1)-d AdS gravity." Physics Letters B, vol. 668, no. 2, 2008, pp. 159-162.

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Lowe, David A., Roy, Shubho. "Holographic description of asymptotically AdS 2 collapse geometries." Physical Review D, vol. 78, no. 12, 2008.

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Abbott, Michael C., Lowe, David A. "Six-dimensional Yang black holes in dilaton gravity." Physics Letters B, vol. 664, no. 3, 2008, pp. 214-218.

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Lowe, David A. "Some remarks on embedding inflation in the AdS/CFT correspondence." Physical Review D, vol. 77, no. 6, 2008.

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Hamilton, Alex, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A. "Local bulk operators in AdS/CFT correspondence: A holographic description of the black hole interior." Physical Review D, vol. 75, no. 10, 2007.

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Hamilton, Alex, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, and David A. "Publisher’s Note: Local bulk operators in AdS/CFT correspondence: A holographic description of the black hole interior [Phys. Rev. D75, 106001 (2007)]." Physical Review D, vol. 75, no. 12, 2007.

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Abbott, Michael C., Lowe, David A. "Statistical entropy of three-dimensional q-deformed Kerr–de Sitter space." Physics Letters B, vol. 646, no. 5-6, 2007, pp. 275-278.

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Hamilton, Alex, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A. "Holographic representation of local bulk operators." Physical Review D, vol. 74, no. 6, 2006.

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Hamilton, Alex, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A. "Local bulk operators in AdS/CFT correspondence: A boundary view of horizons and locality." Physical Review D, vol. 73, no. 8, 2006.

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Lowe, David A., Thorlacius, Lárus. "Remarks on the black hole information problem." Physical Review D, vol. 73, no. 10, 2006.

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Güijosa, Alberto, Lowe, David A., Murugan, Jeff. "Prototype for dS/CFT correspondence." Physical Review D, vol. 72, no. 4, 2005.

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Lowe, David A. "Statistical entropy of two-dimensional dilaton de Sitter space." Physics Letters B, vol. 624, no. 3-4, 2005, pp. 275-280.

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Lowe, David A., Marolf, Donald. "Holography and eternal inflation." Physical Review D, vol. 70, no. 2, 2004.

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Güijosa, Alberto, Lowe, David A. "New twist on the dS/CFT correspondence." Physical Review D, vol. 69, no. 10, 2004.

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Lowe, David A. "q-deformed de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence." Physical Review D, vol. 70, no. 10, 2004.

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Goldstein, Kevin, Lowe, David A. "Real-time perturbation theory in de Sitter space." Physical Review D, vol. 69, no. 2, 2004.

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Alberghi, Gian Luigi, Goldstein, Kevin, Lowe, David A. "Ultra-high energy cosmic rays and de Sitter vacua." Physics Letters B, vol. 578, no. 3-4, 2004, pp. 247-252.

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Goldstein, Kevin, Lowe, David A. "A note on α-vacua and interacting field theory in de Sitter space." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 669, no. 1-2, 2003, pp. 325-340.

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Brower, Richard C., Lowe, David A., Tan, Chung-I. "Hagedorn transition for strings on pp-waves and tori with chemical potentials." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 652, 2003, pp. 127-141.

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Goldstein, Kevin, Lowe, David A. "Initial state effects on the cosmic microwave background and trans-Planckian physics." Physical Review D, vol. 67, no. 6, 2003.

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Lowe, David A., Nastase, Horatiu, Ramgoolam, Sanjaye. "Massive IIA string theory and Matrix theory compactification." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 667, no. 1-2, 2003, pp. 55-89.

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Corley, Steven, Lowe, David A. "Probing the enhancon via calculations in supersymmetric gauge theory." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 653, no. 1-2, 2003, pp. 45-63.

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Iizuka, Norihiro, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A. "Quasiparticle picture of black holes and the entropy-area relation." Physical Review D, vol. 67, no. 12, 2003.

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Iizuka, Norihiro, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A. "Stretched horizons, quasiparticles, and quasinormal modes." Physical Review D, vol. 68, no. 8, 2003.

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Lowe, David A. "Black holes from quantum mechanics." AIP Conference Proceedings, 2002.

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Corley, Steven, Lowe, David A. "Forces between stable non-BPS branes." Physics Letters B, vol. 528, no. 1-2, 2002, pp. 139-148.

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Alberghi, Gian Luigi, Corley, Steven, Lowe, David A. "Moduli space metric of supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theory and the enhancon." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 635, no. 1-2, 2002, pp. 57-74.

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Diba, Kamran, Lowe, David A. "Near-extremal black hole evaporation in asymptotically flat spacetime." Physical Review D, vol. 66, no. 2, 2002.

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Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A. "Black hole entropy from nonperturbative gauge theory." Physical Review D, vol. 64, no. 12, 2001.

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Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A. "Black Hole Thermodynamics from Calculations in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theory." Physical Review Letters, vol. 86, no. 8, 2001, pp. 1426-1429.

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Lowe, David A. "Comment on “Do Semiclassical Zero Temperature Black Holes Exist”." Physical Review Letters, vol. 87, no. 2, 2001.

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Corley, Steven, Lowe, David A, Ramgoolam, Sanjaye. "Einstein-Hilbert action on the brane for the bulk graviton." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2001, no. 07, 2001, pp. 030-030.

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Iizuka, Norihiro, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A. "Probing black holes in nonperturbative gauge theory." Physical Review D, vol. 65, no. 2, 2001.

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Corley, Steven, Lowe, David A. "Solving the hierarchy problem with brane crystals." Physics Letters B, vol. 505, no. 1-4, 2001, pp. 197-205.

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Alberghi, Gian Luigi, Cáceres, Elena, Goldstein, Kevin, Lowe, David A. "Stacking non-BPS D-branes." Physics Letters B, vol. 520, no. 3-4, 2001, pp. 361-366.

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Diba, Kamran, Lowe, David A. "Stress-energy tensor in soluble models of spherically symmetric charged black hole evaporation." Physical Review D, vol. 65, no. 2, 2001.

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Lowe, David A. "Renormalization group flows from gravity in anti-de Sitter space versus black hole no-hair theorems." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2000, no. 04, 2000, pp. 011-011.

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Lowe, David A., Thorlacius, Lárus. "AdS-CFT correspondence and the information paradox." Physical Review D, vol. 60, no. 10, 1999.

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Alberghi, Gian Luigi, Lowe, David A, Trodden, Mark. "Charged false vacuum bubbles and the AdS/CFT correspondence." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 1999, no. 07, 1999, pp. 020-020.

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Lowe, David A. "Comments on a covariant entropy conjecture." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 1999, no. 10, 1999, pp. 026-026.

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Easther, Richard, Lowe, David. "Holography, Cosmology, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics." Physical Review Letters, vol. 82, no. 25, 1999, pp. 4967-4970.

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Lowe, David A, Unge, Rikard von. "Constraints on higher derivative operators in maximally supersymmetric gauge theory." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 1998, no. 11, 1998, pp. 014-014.

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Lowe, David A. "Constraints on higher derivative operators in the matrix theory effective lagrangean." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 1998, no. 11, 1998, pp. 009-009.

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Landsteiner, Karl, Lopez, Esperanza, Lowe, David A. "Duality of chiral Script N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories via branes." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 1998, no. 02, 1998, pp. 007-007.

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Lowe, David A. "E8 × E8 small instantons in matrix theory." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 519, no. 1-2, 1998, pp. 180-194.

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Lowe, David A. "Eleven-dimensional Lorentz symmetry from SUSY quantum mechanics." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 1998, no. 10, 1998, pp. 003-003.

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Lowe, David A. "Statistical Origin of Black Hole Entropy in Matrix Theory." Physical Review Letters, vol. 81, no. 2, 1998, pp. 256-259.

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Landsteiner, Karl, Lopez, Esperanza, Lowe, David A. "Supersymmetric gauge theories from branes and orientifold six-planes." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 1998, no. 07, 1998, pp. 011-011.

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Lowe, David A. "Bound states of Type I′ D-particles and enhanced gauge symmetry." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 501, no. 1, 1997, pp. 134-142.

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Lowe, David.A. "Heterotic matrix string theory." Physics Letters B, vol. 403, no. 3-4, 1997, pp. 243-249.

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Kaplan, David M., Lowe, David A., Maldacena, Juan M., Strominger, Andrew. "Microscopic entropy ofN=2extremal black holes." Physical Review D, vol. 55, no. 8, 1997, pp. 4898-4902.

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Landsteiner, Karl, Lopez, Esperanza, Lowe, David A. "N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories, branes and orientifolds." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 507, no. 1-2, 1997, pp. 197-226.

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Douglas, Michael R., Lowe, David A., Schwarz, John H. "Probing F-theory with multiple branes." Physics Letters B, vol. 394, no. 3-4, 1997, pp. 297-301.

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Gauntlett, Jerome P., Lowe, David A. "Dyons and S-duality in N = 4 supersymmetric gauge theory." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 472, no. 1-2, 1996, pp. 194-206.

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Landsteiner, Karl, López, Esperanza, Lowe, David A. "Evidence for S-duality in N = 4 supersymmetric gauge theory." Physics Letters B, vol. 387, no. 2, 1996, pp. 300-303.

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Breckenridge, J.C., Lowe, D.A., Myers, R.C., Peet, A.W., Strominger, A., Vafa, C. "Macroscopic and microscopic entropy of near-extremal spinning black holes." Physics Letters B, vol. 381, no. 4, 1996, pp. 423-426.

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Chaudhuri, Shyamoli, Lowe, David A. "Monstrous string-string duality." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 469, no. 1-2, 1996, pp. 21-36.

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Horowitz, Gary T., Lowe, David A., Maldacena, Juan M. "Statistical Entropy of Nonextremal Four-Dimensional Black Holes andUDuality." Physical Review Letters, vol. 77, no. 3, 1996, pp. 430-433.

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Chaudhuri, Shyamoli, Owe, David A. "Type IIA-heterotic duals with maximal supersymmetry." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 459, no. 1-2, 1996, pp. 113-124.

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Lowe, David A., Polchinski, Joseph, Susskind, Leonard, Thorlacius, Lárus, Uglum, John. "Black hole complementarity versus locality." Physical Review D, vol. 52, no. 12, 1995, pp. 6997-7010.

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Lowe, David A., Thorlacius, Lárus. "Hot string soup: Thermodynamics of strings near the Hagedorn transition." Physical Review D, vol. 51, no. 2, 1995, pp. 665-670.

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Harvey, Jeffrey A., Lowe, David A., Strominger, Andrew. "N = 1 string duality." Physics Letters B, vol. 362, no. 1-4, 1995, pp. 65-72.

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Lowe, David A., Strominger, Andrew. "Strings near a Rindler or black hole horizon." Physical Review D, vol. 51, no. 4, 1995, pp. 1793-1799.

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Lowe, David A. "The planckian conspiracy: string theory and the black hole information paradox." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 456, no. 1-2, 1995, pp. 257-268.

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Lowe, David A. "Causal properties of free string field theory." Physics Letters B, vol. 326, no. 3-4, 1994, pp. 223-230.

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Lowe, David A., Strominger, Andrew. "Exact Four-Dimensional Dyonic Black Holes and Bertotti-Robinson Spacetimes in String Theory." Physical Review Letters, vol. 73, no. 11, 1994, pp. 1468-1471.

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Lowe, David A., Susskind, Leonard, Uglum, John. "Information spreading in interacting string field theory." Physics Letters B, vol. 327, no. 3-4, 1994, pp. 226-233.

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LOWE, DAVID A. "CONFORMAL MODELS OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE." Modern Physics Letters A, vol. 08, no. 10, 1993, pp. 923-935.

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Lowe, D. A., O’Loughlin, M. "Nonsingular black hole evaporation and ‘‘stable’’ remnants." Physical Review D, vol. 48, no. 8, 1993, pp. 3735-3742.

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Lowe, David A. "Semiclassical approach to black hole evaporation." Physical Review D, vol. 47, no. 6, 1993, pp. 2446-2453.

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LOWE, DAVID A. "UNITARITY RELATIONS IN c=1 LIOUVILLE THEORY." Modern Physics Letters A, vol. 07, no. 28, 1992, pp. 2647-2657.

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Klebanov, Igor R., Lowe, David A. "Correlation functions in two-dimensional quantum gravity coupled to a compact scalar field." Nuclear Physics B, vol. 363, no. 2-3, 1991, pp. 543-554.

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Background

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Year	Degree	Institution
1993	PhD	Princeton University
1988	BA	Cambridge University

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