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George Georgios Papadopoulos is professor for mathematics at King’s College London.

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On KK-compactification of D=11 supergravity on fibers of special holonomy (cf. M-theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds):

• George Papadopoulos, Paul K. Townsend: Compactification of $D=11$ supergravity on spaces of exceptional holonomy, Phys. Lett. B 357 (1995) 300-306 [, arXiv:hep-th/9506150]

On Killing spinors in heterotic supergravity:

• Ulf Gran, George Papadopoulos, Diederik Roest, Supersymmetric heterotic string backgrounds, Phys.Lett.B656:119-126, 2007 (arXiv:0706.4407)

On Killing spinors D=6 supergravity related to D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT:

• Mehmet Akyol, George Papadopoulos, Spinorial geometry and Killing spinor equations of 6-D supergravity, Class. Quant. Grav. 28:105001, 2011 (arXiv:1010.2632)

• Mehmet Akyol, George Papadopoulos, $(1,0)$ superconformal theories in six dimensions and Killing spinor equations, JHEP 07 (2012) 070 (arXiv:1204.2167)

On M2-M5-brane bound states:

• José M. Izquierdo, Neil Lambert, George Papadopoulos, Paul Townsend, Dyonic Membranes, Nucl. Phys. B 460 (1996) 560-578 [[arXiv:hep-th/9508177](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9508177), doi:10.1016/0550-3213(95)00606-0]

• Michael Green, Neil Lambert, George Papadopoulos, Paul Townsend, Dyonic $p$-branes from self-dual $(p+1)$-branes, Phys.Lett.B384:86-92, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9605146)

• George Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Tsimpis, The holonomy of the supercovariant connection and Killing spinors, JHEP 0307:018, 2003 (arXiv:hep-th/0306117)

On black$\,$D8-brane-solutions in massive type IIA supergravity/massive type IIA string theory:

• Eric Bergshoeff, Mees de Roo, Michael Green, George Papadopoulos, Paul Townsend, Duality of Type II 7-branes and 8-branes, Nucl. Phys. B470:113-135, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9601150)

On maximally supersymemtric solutions to D=11 supergravity, including the pp-wave solution:

• José Figueroa-O’Farrill, George Papadopoulos, Homogeneous fluxes, branes and a maximally supersymmetric solution of M-theory, JHEP 0108:036 (2001) [[arXiv:hep-th/0105308](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0105308), doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/08/036]

Showing that the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave solution of D=11 supergravity is a Penrose limit of both the black M2-brane solution $AdS_4 \times S^7$ as well as the black M5-brane solution $AdS_7 \times S^4$:

• Matthias Blau, José Figueroa-O’Farrill, Christopher Hull, George Papadopoulos, Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry, Class. Quant. Grav. 19 (2002) L87-L95 [[arXiv:hep-th/0201081](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201081), doi:10.1088/0264-9381/19/10/101]

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