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Angular Tension of Black Holes (with Jennie Traschen), Physical Review D (2012)

Angular tension is an Arnowitt-Deser-Misner charge that contributes a work term to the first law...

 

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Smarr Formula and an Extended First Law for Lovelock Gravity (with Sourya Ray and Jennie Traschen), Classical and Quantum Gravity (2012)

We study properties of static, asymptotically AdS black holes in Lovelock gravity. Our main result...

 

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The Riemann-Lovelock Curvature Tensor, Classical and Quantum Gravity (2012)

In order to study the properties of Lovelock gravity theories in low dimensions, we define...

 

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Dynamics of Localized Kaluza-Klein Black Holes in a Collapsing Universe (with Lorenzo Sorbo and Jennie Traschen), Classical and Quantum Gravity (2011)

The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 prohibits corporate mergers that would result in certain highly...

 

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Mass and Free Energy of Lovelock Black Holes (with Sourya Ray and Jennie Traschen), Classical and Quantum Gravity (2011)

An explicit formula for the ADM mass of an asymptotically AdS black hole in a...

 

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Kerr-Schild Ansatz in Lovelock Gravity (with Benjamin Ett), Journal of High Energy Physics (2011)

We analyze the field equations of Lovelock gravity for the Kerr-Schild metric ansatz, gab =...

 

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Smarr formula and an extended first law for Lovelock gravity (with Sourya Ray and Jennie Traschen), Classical and Quantum Gravity (2010)

We study properties of static, asymptotically AdS black holes in Lovelock gravity. Our main result...

 

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An extended Kerr–Schild ansatz (with Benjamun Ett), Classical and Quantum Gravity (2010)

We present an analysis of the vacuum Einstein equations for a recently proposed extension of...

 

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Enthalpy and the mechanics of AdS black holes (with Sourya Ray and Jennie Traschen), Classical and Quantum Gravity (2009)

We present geometric derivations of the Smarr formula for static AdS black holes and an...

 

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C-functions in Lovelock gravity (with Mohamed Anber), Journal of High Energy Physics (2008)

We present C-functions for static and spherically symmetric spacetimes in Lovelock gravity theories. These functions...

 

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Komar integrals in higher (and lower) derivative gravity, Classical and Quantum Gravity (2008)

The Komar integral relation of Einstein gravity is generalized to Lovelock theories of gravity. This...

 

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The thermodynamics of Kaluza–Klein black hole/bubble chains (with Sourya Ray and Jennie Traschen), Classical and Quantum Gravity (2008)

A Killing bubble is a minimal surface that arises as the fixed surface of a...

 

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The first law for boosted Kaluza-Klein black holes (with Sourya Ray and Jennie Traschen), Journal of High Energy Physics (2007)

We study the thermodynamics of Kaluza-Klein black holes with momentum along the compact dimension, but...

 

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Do Killing-Yano tensors form a Lie algebra? (with Sourya Ray and Jenny Traschen), Classical and Quantum Gravity (2007)

Killing-Yano tensors are natural generalizations of Killing vectors. We investigate whether Killing-Yano tensors form a...

 

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The attractor mechanism in Gauss-Bonnet gravity (with Mohamed Anber), Journal of High Energy Physics (2007)

We study extremal black hole solutions of D = 5 Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to a...

 

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Stresses and strains in the first law for Kaluza-Klein black holes (with Jennie Traschen), Journal of High Energy Physics (2006)

We consider how variations in the moduli of the compactification manifold contribute `pdV' type work...

 

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On black strings & branes in Lovelock gravity (with Robert Mann), Journal of High Energy Physics (2006)

It is well known that black strings and branes may be constructed in pure Einstein...

 

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Positivity bounds for the Yano-Arnowitt-Deser-Misner mass density (with T Shiromizu, S Tomizawa, and Jennie Traschen), Physical Review D (2005)

Killing-Yano tensors are natural generalizations of Killing vectors to arbitrary rank antisymmetric tensor fields. It...

 

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Conserved gravitational charges from Yano tensors (with Jennie Traschen), Journal of High Energy Physics (2004)

The defining properties of Yano tensors naturally generalize those of Killing vectors to anti-symmetric tensor...

 

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From wrapped M-branes to Calabi-Yau black holes and strings, Journal of High Energy Physics (2003)

We study a class of D = 11 BPS spacetimes that describe M-branes wrapping supersymmetric...

 

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A positive energy theorem for asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes (with Jennie Traschen), Classical and Quatnum Gravity (2002)

We construct a set of conserved charges for asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes that correspond to...

 

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Calibrations and Fayyazuddin-Smith spacetimes (with Hyunji Cho, Moataz Emam, and Jennie Traschen), Physical Review D (2001)

We show that a class of spacetimes introduced by Fayyazuddin and Smith to describe intersecting...

 

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Electric dipole moment of a BPS monopole (with Euy Na), Physical Review D (1999)

Monopole “superpartner” solutions are constructed by acting with finite, broken supersymmetry transformations on a bosonic...

 

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Spin of the M2-brane and spin-spin interactions via probe techniques (with Balasubramanian, Jennie Traschen, and K.Z. Win), Physical Review D (1999)

The 256-dimensional M2-brane multiplet contains solitons of many different intrinsic spins. Using the broken supersymmetry...

 

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Dynamics of the Dirac-Born-Infeld spike soliton (with Jennie Traschen), Physical Review D (1999)

We compare oscillations of a fundamental string ending on a D3-brane in two different settings:...

 

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Fully localized brane intersections: The plot thickens (with A Gomberoff, D Marolf, and Jennie Traschen), Physical Review D (1999)

We study fully localized Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield brane solutions in classical supergravity using a perturbative approach to...

 

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BPS force balances via spin-spin interactions (with Jennie Traschen), Classical and Quantum Gravity (1999)

We study two systems of BPS solitons in which spin-spin interactions are important in establishing...

 

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Overlapping branes in M-theory (with Jerome Gauntlett and Jennie Traschen), Nuclear Physics B (1999)

We construct new supersymmetric solutions of D = 11 supergravity describing n orthogonally “overlapping” membranes...

 

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U duality, D-branes, and black hole emission rates: Agreements and disagreements (with F Dowker and Jennie Traschen), Physical Review D (1998)

An expression for the spacetime absorption coefficient of a scalar field in a five-dimensional, near-extremal...

 

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Very effective string model? (with Jennie Traschen), Physical Review D (1998)

Additional evidence is presented for a recently proposed effective string model, conjectured to hold throughout...

 

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Non-extreme Calabi-Yau black holes (with K.Z Win), Physics Letters B (1998)

Non-extreme black hole solutions of four dimensional, N = 2 supergravity theories with Calabi-Yau prepotentials...

 

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Breaking Cosmic Strings without Monopoles (with D Eardley, G Horowitz, and Jennie Traschen), Physical Review Letters (1995)

It is shown that topologically stable cosmic strings can, in fact, appear to end or...

 

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Supersymmetry and stationary solutions in dilaton-axion gravity (with R Kallosh, T Ortín, and T Torma), Physical Review D (1994)

New stationary solutions of four-dimensional dilaton-axion gravity are presented, which correspond to the charged Taub-NUT...

 

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Supersymmetric self-gravitating solitons (with G Gibbons, L London, P Townsend, and Jennie Traschen), Nuclear Physics B (1994)

We show that the “instantonic” soliton of five-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and the closely related BPS...

 

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Pair creation of dilaton black holes (with F Dowker, J Gauntlett, and Jennie Traschen), Physical Review D (1994)

We consider dilaton gravity theories in four spacetime dimensions parametrized by a constant a, which...

 

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Testing cosmic censorship with black hole collisions (with D Brill, G Horowitz, and Jennie Traschen), Physical Review D (1994)

There exists an upper limit on the mass of black holes when the cosmological constant...

 

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Cosmological multi-black-hole solutions (with Jennie Traschen), Physical Review D (1993)

We present simple, analytic solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equation, which describe an arbitrary number of...

 

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Horizons inside classical lumps (with Jennie Traschen), Physics Department Faculty Publication Series (1992)

We investigate the possibility of having horizons inside various classical field configurations. Using the implicit...

 

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Do Killing–Yano tensors form a Lie algebra? (with Sourya Ray and Jennie Traschen), Physics Department Faculty Publication Series (2007)

Killing–Yano tensors are natural generalizations of Killing vectors. We investigate whether Killing–Yano tensors form a...

 

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The Dynamics of Collapsing Monopoles and Regular Black Holes (with Hyunji Cho and Jennie Traschen), Physics Department Faculty Publication Series (2000)

We study the formation and stability of regular black holes by employing a thin shell...