David Fairlie

David B. Fairlie (born in South Queensferry, Scotland, 1935) is a British mathematician and theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham (UK).^[1]

He was educated in mathematical physics at the University of Edinburgh (BSc 1957), and he earned a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1960, under the supervision of John Polkinghorne. After postdoctoral training at Princeton University and Cambridge, he was lecturer in St. Andrews (1962–64) and at Durham University (1964), retiring as Professor (2000).

He has made numerous influential contributions^[2] in particle and mathematical physics, notably in the early formulation of string theory,^[3] as well as the determination of the weak mixing angle in extra dimensions,^[4] infinite-dimensional Lie algebras,^[5] classical solutions of gauge theories, ^[6] higher-dimensional gauge theories,^[7] and deformation quantization.^[8]

He has co-authored several volumes, notably^[9][10] on quantum mechanics in phase space.

References

1. Prof Fairlie's University of Durham web-page
2. Prof Fairlie's physics publications are available on the INSPIRE Database and the GoogleCite database .
3. Fairlie, D. B.; Nielsen, H. B. (1970). "An analogue model for KSV theory". Nuclear Physics B. 20 (3): 637. Bibcode:1970NuPhB..20..637F. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(70)90393-7.; Corrigan, E.; Fairlie, D. B. (1975). "Off-shell states in dual resonance theory" (PDF). Nuclear Physics B. 91 (3): 527. Bibcode:1975NuPhB..91..527C. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(75)90125-X.
4. Fairlie, D. B. (1979). "Higgs fields and the determination of the Weinberg angle". Physics Letters B. 82 (1): 97–100. Bibcode:1979PhLB...82...97F. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(79)90434-9.
5. Fairlie, D. B.; Fletcher, P.; Zachos, C. K. (1989). "Trigonometric structure constants for new infinite-dimensional algebras". Physics Letters B. 218 (2): 203. Bibcode:1989PhLB..218..203F. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(89)91418-4.
6. Corrigan, E.; Fairlie, D. B. (1977). "Scalar field theory and exact solutions to a classical SU (2) gauge theory". Physics Letters B. 67 (1): 69–71. Bibcode:1977PhLB...67...69C. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(77)90808-5.
7. Corrigan, E.; Devchand, C.; Fairlie, D. B.; Nuyts, J. (1983). "First-order equations for gauge fields in spaces of dimension greater than four". Nuclear Physics B. 214 (3): 452. Bibcode:1983NuPhB.214..452C. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90244-4.
8. Fairlie, D. B. (1964). "The formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of phase space functions". Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 60 (3): 581–586. Bibcode:1964PCPS...60..581F. doi:10.1017/S0305004100038068.
9. Cosmas K. Zachos, David B. Fairlie, and Thomas L. Curtright, Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2005) ISBN 978-981-238-384-6 .
10. Thomas L Curtright, David B Fairlie, Cosmas K Zachos, A Concise Treatise on Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2014) ISBN 9789814520430