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Selected writings

On abelian higher gauge fields (B-field and higher) generalizing the electromagnetic field : (“p-form electromagnetism”):

• Marc Henneaux ,

  Marc Henneaux, Claudio Teitelboim: $p$-Form electrodynamics, Found. Phys. 16 (1986) 593–617 [doi:10.1007/BF01889624]

  Claudio Teitelboim : $p$-Form electrodynamics, Found. Phys. 16 (1986) 593–617 [doi:10.1007/BF01889624]

• Claudio Bunster, Marc Henneaux: The Action for Twisted Self-Duality, Phys. Rev. D 83 (2011) 125015 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.83.125015, arXiv:1103.3621]

  (in the guise of pre-metric electromagnetism)

On 3d gravity as a Chern-Simons theory and its holographic relation to a 2d CFT boundary field theory (well before AdS/CFT was conceived from string theory):

• J. D. Brown, Marc Henneaux, Central charges in the canonical realization of asymptotic symmetries: An example from three dimensional gravity, Commun. Math. Phys. (1986) 104: 207 (doi:10.1007/BF01211590)

• O. Coussaert, Marc Henneaux, P. van Driel, The asymptotic dynamics of three-dimensional Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant, Class. Quant. Grav. 12 (1995) 2961-2966 (arXiv:gr-qc/9506019)

• Marc Henneaux, Wout Merbis, Arash Ranjbar, Asymptotic dynamics of $AdS_3$ gravity with two asymptotic regions (arXiv:1912.09465)

On self-dual higher gauge fields:

• Marc Henneaux, Claudio Teitelboim, Dynamics of chiral (self-dual) $p$-forms, Physics Letters B 206 4 (1988) 650-654 []

On BV-BRST-quantization of gauge theories:

• Marc Henneaux, Claudio Teitelboim, Quantization of Gauge Systems, Princeton University Press (1992) [[ISBN:9780691037691](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691037691/quantization-of-gauge-systems), doi:10.2307/j.ctv10crg0r, jstor:j.ctv10crg0r]

On the BTZ black hole:

• Máximo Bañados, Marc Henneaux, Claudio Teitelboim, Jorge Zanelli, Geometry of the 2+1 Black Hole, Phys. Rev. D 48 (1993) 1506-1525 [[arXiv:gr-qc/9302012](https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9302012)]

On local BRST cohomology and BV-formalism:

• Glenn Barnich, Friedemann Brandt, Marc Henneaux, Local BRST cohomology in the antifield formalism: I. General theorems, Commun. Math. Phys. 174 (1995) 57-92 [[arXiv:hep-th/9405109](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9405109), doi:10.1007/BF02099464]

• Glenn Barnich, Marc Henneaux, Isomorphisms between the Batalin-Vilkovisky antibracket and the Poisson bracket, J. Math. Phys. 37 (1996) 5273-5296 [[arXiv:hep-th/9601124](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9601124), doi:10.1063/1.531726]

• Glenn Barnich, Friedemann Brandt, Marc Henneaux, Local BRST cohomology in gauge theories, Phys. Rept. 338 (2000) 439-569 [arXiv:hep-th/0002245]

and application to gravity and/or Yang-Mills theory (Einstein-Yang-Mills theory):

• Glenn Barnich, Friedemann Brandt, Marc Henneaux, Local BRST cohomology in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, Nucl. Phys. B 455 (1995) 357-408 [arXiv:hep-th/9505173]

On higher dimensional Chern-Simons theory:

• Máximo Bañados, Luis Garay, Marc Henneaux: Existence of local degrees of freedom for higher dimensional pure Chern-Simons theories, Phys. Rev. D 53 (1996) R593(R) [[doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.53.R593](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.53.R593), arXiv:hep-th/9506187]

• Máximo Bañados, Luis Garay, Marc Henneaux: The dynamical structure of higher dimensional Chern-Simons theory, Nuclear Physics B 476 3 (1996) 611-635 [, arXiv:hep-th/9605159]

On a 1d sigma-model on a coset space of the E10 U-duality-group as a potential model for the M-theory-completion of 11D supergravity:

• Thibault Damour, Marc Henneaux, Hermann Nicolai: $E(10)$ and a “small tension expansion” of M theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 221601 (2002) [[arXiv:hep-th/0207267](http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0207267), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.221601]

• Marc Henneaux, Mauricio Leston, Daniel Persson, Philippe Spindel: Geometric Configurations, Regular Subalgebras of E10 and M-Theory Cosmology, JHEP 0610:021 (2006) [[arXiv:hep-th/0606123](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0606123), doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/10/021]

  (cosmological solutions)

• Marc Henneaux, Ella Jamsin, Axel Kleinschmidt, Daniel Persson: On the $E_{10}$/Massive Type IIA Supergravity Correspondence, Phys. Rev. D 79 (2009) 045008 [[arXiv:0811.4358](https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.4358), doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.79.045008]

  (relation to massive type IIA string theory)

On the dual graviton:

• Xavier Bekaert, Nicolas Boulanger, Marc Henneaux: Consistent deformations of dual formulations of linearized gravity: A no-go result, Phys. Rev. D 67 (2003) 044010 [[arXiv:hep-th/0210278](http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210278), doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.67.044010]

On U-duality-symmetry and fermionic representations of its maximal compact subalgebras (in particular for that of E10):

• Sophie de Buyl, Marc Henneaux, Louis Paulot: Hidden Symmetries and Dirac Fermions, Class. Quant. Grav. 22 (2005) 3595-3622 [[arXiv:hep-th/0506009](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0506009), doi:10.1088/0264-9381/22/17/018]

On the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in relation to the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group of asymptotic symmetries:

• Marc Henneaux: Wheeler-DeWitt equation and Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) symmetry [[arXiv:2506.02240](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02240)]

On Stanley Deser:

• Marc Henneaux, Rafael I. Nepomechie, Domenico Seminara: Preface to Fields, Gravity, Strings and Beyond: In Memory of Stanley Deser [[arXiv:2509.10618](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10618)]

On the conserved current of BRST operators:

• Glenn Barnich, Laurent Baulieu, Marc Henneaux, Tom Wetzstein: BV-BRST Noether theorem [[arXiv:2512.19418](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19418)]

Related entries

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