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Dr. Sezgin's research interests include: Theoretical high energy particle physics, quantum gravity, supergravities in diverse dimensions, superstring theory, branes and M-theory, higher spin theories and modified theories of gravity.

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Stony Brook University - (Stony Brook, New York, United States)

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Spacetime and Worldvolume Supersymmetric Super p-Brane Actions

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New unfolded higher spin systems in AdS3

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QUANTUM-MECHANICS ON THE CIRCLE AND W1+INFINITY

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Spectrum of D=6, N=4b supergravity on AdS3xS3

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On the consistency of a class of R-symmetry gauged 6D  N   =(1,0) supergravities.

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Fine tuning and six-dimensional gauged N = (1,0) supergravity vacua

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Chern-Simons matter theories and higher spin gravity

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Massless spectrum and critical dimension of the supermembrane

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SELF-DUALITY IN 3+3 DIMENSIONS AND THE KP EQUATION

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Superparticles, p-form coordinates and the BPS condition

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SO(4) gauging of N = 2 supergravity in seven dimensions

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Higher derivative extension of 6D chiral gauged supergravity

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Critical dimensions of spinning strings on group manifolds from Fujikawa's method.

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TWISTOR-LIKE FORMULATION OF SUPER P-BRANES

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Search for duality symmetries in p-branes

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Phenotypic and genetic parameters for growth characteristics of Morkaraman sheep

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Holography in 4D (super) higher spin theories and a test via cubic scalar couplings

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d = 8 supergravity: Matter couplings, gauging and Minkowski compactification

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Off-shell D=5, N=2 Riemann squared supergravity

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One-loop tests of the supersymmetric higher spin AdS4/CFT3 correspondence

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Singletons, higher spin massless states and the supermembrane

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Action Principles for Higher and Fractional Spin Gravities

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Noncompact gaugings, chiral reduction and dual sigma models in supergravity

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Boundary conditions for interacting membranes

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Kac-Moody and Virasoro symmetries of principal chiral sigma models

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On Nonlinear Superconformal Algebras With N > 4

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Geometry and observables in Vasiliev's higher spin gravity

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New ghost-free gravity Lagrangians with propagating torsion

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E7(7) exceptional field theory in superspace

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Scalar potential and dyonic strings in 6D gauged supergravity

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Coupling of Yang-Mills to N = 4, d = 4 supergravity

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N = 8 supersingleton quantum field theory

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New superconformal models in six dimensions: Gauge group and representation structure

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Physical states for nonlinear SO(N) superstrings

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A STABLE SUPERMEMBRANE VACUUM WITH A DISCRETE SPECTRUM

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Locally supersymmetric -model with Wess-Zumino term in two dimensions and critical dimensions for strings

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Doubletons and 5D higher spin gauge theory

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Higher derivative super Yang-Mills theories

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Scalar potential and dyonic strings in 6D gauged supergravity

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The spectrum of the eleven-dimensional supergravity compactified on the round seven-sphere

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Dimensional reduction of higher derivative heterotic supergravity

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Dualization of higher derivative heterotic supergravities in 6D and 10D

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Superspace formulation of 4D higher spin gauge theory

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(1,0) superconformal models in six dimensions

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(8,0) Locally supersymmetric sigma models with conformal invariance in two dimensions

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10-DIMENSIONAL SUPERGRAVITY FROM LIGHT-LIKE INTEGRABILITY IN LOOP SUPERSPACE

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Class of ghost-free gravity Lagrangians with massive or massless propagating torsion

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6D dyonic string with active hyperscalars

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SUPER P-BRANE THEORIES AND NEW SPACETIME SUPERALGEBRAS

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Super p-Form Charges and a Reformulation of the Supermembrane Action in   Eleven Dimensions

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Classification of solutions in topologically massive gravity

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On the magical supergravities in six dimensions

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On Exact Solutions and Perturbative Schemes in Higher Spin Theory

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A supersymmetric R2-action in six dimensions and torsion

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The general supersymmetric solution of topologically massive supergravity

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New couplings of six-dimensional supergravity

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SELF-DUAL SUPERGRAVITY THEORIES IN 2+2 DIMENSIONS

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On curvature expansion of higher-spin gauge theory

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Matter coupled AdS3 supergravities and their black strings

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Supergravity in d=9 and its coupling to the non-compact model

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A GENERALIZED VIRASORO ALGEBRA FOR THE TYPE-IIA SUPERSTRING

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Semiclassical quantization of the supermembrane

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Sigma models with purely Wess-Zumino-Witten actions

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The superconformal gaugings in three dimensions

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Higher derivative couplings of hypermultiplets

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4D Higher Spin Gravity with Dynamical Two-Form as a   Frobenius--Chern--Simons Gauge Theory

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Anomaly-free tensor-Yang-Mills system and its dual formulation

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Extended geometry of magical supergravities

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Rigid 6D supersymmetry and localization

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Analysis of higher spin field equations in four dimensions

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On one loop corrections in higher spin gravity

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Renormalizability properties of spontaneously broken N = 8 supergravity

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SUPERCONFORMAL SIGMA-MODELS IN HIGHER THAN 2 DIMENSIONS

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Group reduction of heterotic supergravity

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Matter and gauge couplings of N = 2 supergravity in six dimensions

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Kundt spacetimes as solutions of topologically massive gravity

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Super p-branes as gauge theories of volume preserving diffeomorphisms

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Compactifications of N = 1, D = 10 supergravity to 2 and 3 dimensions

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Witten-Nester energy in topologically massive gravity

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Six-dimensional superconformal couplings of non-abelian tensor and hypermultiplets

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Open BRST algebras, ghost unification and string field theory

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Spectrum of higher derivative 6D chiral supergravity on Minkowski xS 2

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THE COUPLING OF YANG-MILLS TO EXTENDED OBJECTS

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The W<inf>3</inf> string spectrum

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Pole-dominance model for nonleptonic charm decays

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7D bosonic higher spin gauge theory: symmetry algebra and linearized constraints

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One-loop beta functions in topologically massive gravity

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Perturbative and global anomalies in supergravity theories

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On N=1, 2, 4 higher spin gauge theories in four dimensions

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FRW and domain walls in higher spin gravity

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Is There a Stringy Description of Self-Dual Supergravity in 2+2   Dimensions?

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Correlation functions in -deformed N=6 supergravity

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On Critical Massive (Super)Gravity in adS3

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Maximal extended supergravity theory in seven dimensions

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The Born-Infeld action from conformal invariance of the open superstring

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On an Exact Cosmological Solution of Higher Spin Gauge Theory

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Supersymmetry in dimensions beyond eleven

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Massless higher spins and holography (vol 644, pg 303, 2002)

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Supersymmetric warped AdS in extended topologically massive supergravity

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Chiral compactification on Minkowski  S2 of N = 2 Einstein-Maxwell supergravity in six dimensions

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Real forms of complex higher spin field equations and new exact solutions

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New spacetime superalgebras and their KAC-Moody extension

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U(1)-EXTENDED GAUGE ALGEBRAS IN P-LOOP SPACE

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The gaugings of maximal D=6 supergravity

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Superconformal tensor calculus and matter couplings in six dimensions

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Area-Preserving Diffeomorphisms, w_infty Algebras and w_infty Gravity

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An action for matter coupled higher spin gravity in three dimensions

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Central extensions of area preserving membrane algebras

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On supersymmetric E 11 exceptional field theory

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D=7/D=6 heterotic supergravity with gauged R-symmetry

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THE SUPER W-INFINITY SYMMETRY OF THE MANIN-RADUL SUPER KP HIERARCHY

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SU(2) reduction of six-dimensional (1,0) supergravity

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Properties of the eleven-dimensional supermembrane theory

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Covariant field equations of the M-theory five-brane

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Dimensional regularization and the massive Wess-Zumino model

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Towards massless higher spin extension of D=5, N=8 gauged supergravity

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Superconformal sigma models in three dimensions

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Massive N=2 supergravity in three dimensions

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QUANTIZATION DEFORMS W-INFINITY TO W-INFINITY GRAVITY

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BRST OPERATOR FOR SUPERCONFORMAL ALGEBRAS WITH QUADRATIC NONLINEARITY

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11D supergravity onAdS 4 x S 7versusAdS 7xS 4

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The complete N = 2, d = 6 supergravity with matter and yang-mills couplings

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Chern-Simons supergravity plus matter near the boundary of AdS 3

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Conformally invariant supersymmetric field theories on Sp  S1 and super p-branes

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Ultraviolet finiteness of N = 8 supergravity, spontaneously broken by dimensional reduction

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Higher spin N=8 supergravity

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Superstring actions in D = 3,4,6,10 curved superspace

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On Higher Spins with a Strong Sp(2,R) Condition

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Supersymmetric R2 actions, conformal invariance and the Lorentz Chern-Simons term in 6 and 10 dimensions

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New class of ghost- and tachyon-free metric affine gravities

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(2,0) tensor multiplets and conformal supergravity in D=6

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Couplings of self-dual tensor multiplet in six dimensions

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Beta functions of topologically massive supergravity

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An exact solution of 4D higher-spin gauge theory

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Beyond E 11

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Supersymmetric Yang-Mills equations in 10+2 dimensions

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Hamiltonian formulation of the supermembrane

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Renormalizability properties of antisymmetric tensor fields coupled to gravity

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Massive three-dimensional supergravity from R plus R 2 action in six dimensions

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Strings, Branes, and Higher Spin Theories

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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M-theory, Superspace and Higher Spin Theories

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Physics And Astronomy; 4242 TAMU

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Ozkan, Mehmet (2013-07). Supersymmetric Curvature Squared Invariants in Five and Six Dimensions. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Zhu, Yaodong (2017-06). Localization and Higher Spin/CFT Dualities. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Jong, Der-Chyn (2007-12). Aspects of 7d and 6d gauged supergravities. Doctoral Dissertation.