Name Suresh Govindarajan (Ph.D, U.Penn.,Philadelphia, 1991)
Designation Professor
Group Dynamical Systems, Statistical Physics and Field Theory
Phone +91-44-2257 4867
Room HSB 315A
Research Interests Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, Black Holes
Email suresh at physics.iitm.ac.in
Personal Home Page hsb.iitm.ac.in/~suresh

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Recent Publications 

1) Symplectic potentials and resolved Ricci-flat ACG metrics.
By Aswin K. Balasubramanian, Suresh Govindarajan, Chethan N. Gowdigere.
[arXiv:0707.4306] [hep-th]

2) A tale of two superpotentials
By Suresh Govindarajan
To appear in the proceedings of the International Workshop of Theoretical Physics (IWTHEP) held at IIT, Roorkee (March 2007)

3) Chiral primaries in the Leigh-Strassler deformed N=4 SYM - a perturbative study.
By Kallingalthodi Madhu & Suresh Govindarajan
JHEP 05 (2007) 038. [hep-th/0703020]

4) Toric Kahler metrics and AdS5 in ring-like co-ordinates.
By Bobby S. Acharya, Suresh Govindarajan, Chethan N. Gowdigere
e-Print Archive: hep-th/0612302

5) Tachyon condensation on the elliptic curve.
By Suresh Govindarajan, Hans Jockers, Wolfgang Lerche, Nicholas P. Warner.
Nucl.Phys. B765 (2007) 240-286. [hep-th/0512208]

6) Effective superpotentials for B-branes in Landau-Ginzburg models.
By Suresh Govindarajan & Hans Jockers.
JHEP 10 (2006) 060. [hep-th/0608027]

7) Fractional two-branes, toric orbifolds and the quantum McKay correspondence.
By Bobby Ezhuthachan, Suresh Govindarajan, T. Jayaraman.
JHEP 10 (2006) 032. [hep-th/0606154]

8) A quantum McKay correspondence for fractional 2p-branes on LG orbifolds.
By Bobby Ezhuthachan, Suresh Govindarajan, T. Jayaraman.
JHEP 0508:050,2005. [hep-th/0504164]

9 Crosscaps in Gepner models and type IIA orientifolds.
By Suresh Govindarajan & Jaydeep Majumder.
JHEP 0402:026,2004. [hep-th/0306257]

10) Orientifolds of type IIA strings on Calabi-Yau manifolds.
By Suresh Govindarajan & Jaydeep Majumder.
Pramana 62:711-716,2004. [hep-th/0305108]

11) D branes on Calabi-Yau manifolds and superpotentials.
By Michael R. Douglas, Suresh Govindarajan, T. Jayaraman, Alessandro Tomasiello.
Commun.Math.Phys. 248:85-118,2004. [hep-th/0203173]

12 Crosscaps in Gepner models and type IIA orientifolds.
By Suresh Govindarajan & Jaydeep Majumder.
JHEP 0402:026,2004. [hep-th/0306257]

13) Orientifolds of type IIA strings on Calabi-Yau manifolds.
By Suresh Govindarajan & Jaydeep Majumder.
Pramana 62:711-716,2004. [hep-th/0305108]

14) Disc instantons in linear sigma models.
By Suresh Govindarajan, T. Jayaraman, Tapobrata Sarkar.
Nucl.Phys.B646:498-523,2002. [hep-th/0108234]