Romesh K Kaul
Retired Professor
Theoretical Physics
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kaul @ imsc . res . in
317 New Building
Research Interests:
- Particle Physics
- Quantum Field Theory
- Gravity
Education:
- PhD (Delhi University)
Career History:
- Center for Theoretical Studies (CTS), IISc, Bengaluru (1980-1992).
- IMSc, Chennai (1992 - )
Courses Taught:
- Particle Physics
- Elementary Quantum Field Theory
- Advance Quantum Field Theory
- Supersymmetry
Selected publications:
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Gauge hierarchy in a supersymmetric model, R.K. Kaul, Phys. Lett.
109B (1982) 19. -
Cancellation of quadratically divergent mass corrections in globally su-
persymmetric spontaneously broken gauge theories, R.K. Kaul and P.
Majumdar, Nucl. Phys. B199 (1982) 36. -
Supersymmetric solution to gauge hierarchy problem, R.K. Kaul, Pra-
mana 19 (1982) 183. - Technicolour, R.K. Kaul, Rev. Mod. Phys. 55 (1983) 449.
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Three dimensional Chern-Simons theory as a theory of knots and links
I, R.K. Kaul and T.R. Govindarajan, Nucl. Phys. B380 (1992) 293. -
Chern-Simons theory, coloured-oriented braids and link invariants, R.K.
Kaul, Commun. Math. Phys. 162 (1994) 289. -
Logarithmic correction to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, R.K. Kaul
and P. Majumdar, gr-qc/0002040, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000) 5255. -
Logarithmic correction to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of BTZ
black hole, T.R. Govindarajan, R.K. Kaul and V. Suneeta, gr-qc/0104010,
Class. Quantum Grav. 18 (2001) 2877. -
Topological interpretation of Barbero-Immirzi parameter, G. Date, R.K.
Kaul, S. Sengupta, arXiv:0811.4496 [gr-qc], Phys. Rev. D79 (2009)
044008. -
Entropy of quantum black holes, R.K. Kaul, arXiv:1201.6102[gr-qc],
SIGMA 8 (2012), 005, an invited article for the special issue
on Loop Quantum Gravity and Cosmology of SIGMA (Symmetry, Inte-
grability and Geometry: Methods and Applications), eds. M. Bojowald
et al. -
Degenerate spacetimes in first order gravity, R.K. Kaul and S. Sen-
gupta, arXiv:1602.04559 [gr-qc]; Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 084026. -
Why supersymmetry? Physics beyond the Standard Model, R.K. Kaul,
an invited article in the Theme issue on Higgs Physics of Pramana,
(2016) 87 (No.3): 37.