I received my first degree from the physics department of the university of
Athens in 1973 and my doctorat d’ etat in theoretical physics from the
university Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg (France). I want to express my
gratitude to the French people for giving me the necessary scholarship to
achieve it.
During my 1986 summer stay at CERN, as assistant professor in the physics
department of the university of Crete, I started studying string theory like the
majority of researchers this period. Then I realized that its impressive results
come from the characteristic property of the Polyakov action to be metric
independent without being topological. That is the 2-dimensional metric
admits a coordinate system, where the remaining Weyl factor formally
disappears from the action. Knowing that the well-known 4-dimensional
conformal action is not metric independent, I looked and finally found a 4-
dimensional action with this property. This 4-dimensional action depends on a
gauge field, instead of the embedding field X(τ,σ) of the Polyakov action.
During my sabbatical year 1986-87 at the king’s college, London, invited by
Professor J. G. Taylor, I clarified many points related to its relation with
general relativity and I published a series of works. I realized that the action
had no other relation with the string theory than its metric independence and it
does not admit supersymmetry. It is well defined in the general E. Cartan
moving frame formalism, which contains all the existing interactions even at
the classical level.
Unfortunately, I was obliged to move in Athens, to the pedagogical institute of
the greek ministry of education, and work on pedagogical matters. After the
final CERN experimental results that supersymmetric particles do not exist in
nature, I realized that pseudo-conformal field theory (PCFT) was the only
promising renormalizable lagrangian model. I retired and I focused on PCFT. I
hope that experiment will soon “speak” and I will learn whether it is valid
before the end of my life!!
I actually continue my research focusing on the “intimate” relation of PCFT
and the generalized functions. My feeling is that current quantum theory is a
“measurement effect”. In the meantime, I am fishing and playing with my
grandchildren.
