• Atomic Physics
• Biophysics Theory and Experiment
• Condensed Matter Experiment
• Condensed Matter Theory
• Cosmology Experiment
• Cosmology Theory
• High Energy Experiment
• High Energy Theory Faculty
  • Curtis Callan
  • Steven Gubser
  • Christopher Herzog
  • Igor Klebanov
  • Chiara R. Nappi
  • Alexander Polyakov
  • Paul J. Steinhardt
  • Herman Verlinde
  • Liantao Wang
  • Stephen Adler (IAS)
  • Juan Maldacena (IAS)
  • Nathan Seiberg (IAS)
  • Ed Witten (IAS)
• Mathematical Physics
• Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics

• Quantitative and Computational Biology
• Cosmology at Princeton
• Lewis-Sigler Institute
• Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
• Princeton Institute for the Science
  and Technology of Materials

Chiara R. Nappi has been working on various aspects of theoretical particle physics, from mathematical physics to string theory. After her initial interest in constructive field theory and rigorous statistical mechanics, she worked on the skyrmion description of nucleons, at the interface of particle physics and nuclear physics. Starting in the mid 80's she got involved in string theory, shifting her focus from particle phenomenology to string phenomenology. Since then, she has been working on low-energy effective actions for string theory and their solutions. Aside from deriving Born-Infeld and Fierz-Pauli lagrangians from string theory, she investigated the effects of boundaries and higher loops corrections on the string effective actions. She also has been interested in black hole solutions, especially in the connection between black hole solutions in two and higher dimensions. More recently, she has worked on non-commutativity in string theory.

S e l e c t e d P u b l i c a t i o n s:

A Scaling Limit With Many Noncommutativity Parameters, C.R. Nappi and L. Dolan Phys. Lett. B504, pp. 329-337, 2001. Charged Black Holes in Two-Dimensional String Theory, C. R. Nappi, M. D. McGuigan, and S. A. Yost, Nucl. Phys. B375, pp. 421-452. Open Strings in Background Gauge Fields, C. R. Nappi, A. Abouelsaood, C. G. Callan, and S. A. Yost, Nucl. Phys. B280, p. 599, 1987. Static Properties of Baryons as Chiral Solitons, C. R. Nappi, Proc. of Workshop on Solitons in Nuclear and Particle Physics, Lewes, Del, June 2-July 27, 1984 (QC174.26:W62:1984). Interacting Relativistic Boson Fields in the De Sitter Universe With Two Space-Time Dimensions, C. R. Nappi, R. Figari, and R. Hoegh-Krohn, Comm. Math. Phys. 44, pp. 265-278, 1975. Detailed Publication List (Spires Library)