John Lighton Synge. 23 March 1897 — 30 March 1995

Washington University Record, March 23, 1995

/ 9503022 March , 1995 PSEUDO - DUALITY

Proper symmetries act on fields while pseudo-symmetries act on both fields and coupling constants. We identify the pseudo-duality groups that act as symmetries of the equations of motion of general systems of scalar and vector fields and apply our results to N = 2, 4 and 8 supergravity theories. We present evidence that the pseudo-duality group for both the heterotic and type II strings toroida...

PLS Newsletter, v5n6, March 1995

Access published March 30 , 2007

Dangerous Scientific Reticence 23 March 2016

Several years ago I wrote a paper1 on scientific reticence, naively thinking that drawing attention to the phenomenon might ameliorate its incidence. Specific reference then was to likelihood of large sea level rise, which also is a central topic in our current paper2. However, here I address a broader issue of scientific reticence, because, I believe, the affliction is widespread and severe. U...