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Robert A McNees IV
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My research addresses fundamental questions in General Relativity, Particle Physics, and Cosmology.
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About Robert A McNees IV
My research addresses fundamental questions in General Relativity, Particle Physics, and Cosmology.
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2009 - Present
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Loyola University Chicago
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Cosmology, Relativity, and Gravity
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Elementary Particles and Fields and String Theory
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High Energy Theoretical Physics
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High Energy Theory
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Article
Holographic Renormalization of Asymptotically Lifshitz Spacetimes
Journal of High Energy Physics (2011)
Robert McNees and Robert Mann
A variational formulation is given for a theory of gravity coupled to a massive vector in four dimensions, with Asymptotically ...
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Featured Works
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Conventions, Definitions, Identities, and Other Useful Formulae
Loyola eCommons (2024)
Robert A McNees
As the name suggests, these notes contain a summary of important conventions, definitions, identities, and various formulas that I often ...
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Bounds on extra dimensions from micro black holes in the ...
Physical Review D (2019)
Katherine J. Mack and Robert A McNees
We estimate the rate at which collisions between ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays can form small black holes in models with extra ...
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Menagerie of AdS2 boundary conditions
Journal of High Energy Physics (2017)
Daniel Grumiller, Robert A McNees, Jakob Salzer, Carlos Valcárcel, et al.
We consider different sets of AdS2 boundary conditions for the Jackiw-Teitelboim model in the linear dilaton sector where the dilaton ...
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Cosmological Constant as Confining U(1) Charge in Two-Dimensional Dilaton ...
Physical Review D (2014)
Daniel Grumiller, Robert A McNees and Jakob Salzer
The cosmological constant is treated as a thermodynamical parameter in the framework of two-dimensional dilaton gravity. We find that the ...
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The Electric Field at the Chargeless Interface Between Two Regions ...
American Journal of Physics (2014)
Asim Gangopadhyaya and Robert McNees
A common method for solving Poisson's equation in electrostatics is to patch together two or more solutions of Laplace's equation ...
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Conformal gravity holography in four dimensions
Physical Review Letters (2014)
Robert A McNees
We formulate four-dimensional conformal gravity with (anti–)de Sitter boundary conditions that are weaker than Starobinsky boundary conditions, allowing for an ...
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Conformal Gravity Holography in Four Dimensions
Physical Review Letters (2014)
Daniel Grumiller, Maria Irakleidou, Iva Lovrekovic, and Robert McNees
We formulate four-dimensional conformal gravity with (anti–)de Sitter boundary conditions that are weaker than Starobinsky boundary conditions, allowing for an ...
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Black holes in the conical ensemble
Physical Review D (2012)
Robert A McNees and Daniel Grumiller
We consider black holes in an “unsuitable box”: a finite cavity coupled to a thermal reservoir at a temperature different ...
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Article
Holographic Renormalization of Asymptotically Lifshitz Spacetimes
Journal of High Energy Physics (2011)
Robert A McNees and Robert Mann
A variational formulation is given for a theory of gravity coupled to a massive vector in four dimensions, with Asymptotically ...
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Article
Boundary terms unbound! Holographic renormalization of asymptotically linear dilaton gravity
Classical and Quantum Gravity (2010)
Robert A McNees and Robert Mann
A variational principle is constructed for gravity coupled to an asymptotically linear dilaton and a p-form field strength. This requires ...
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Research Works
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Article
dS2 as excitation of AdS2
SciPost Physics (2022)
Florian Ecker, Daniel Grumiller and Robert McNees
Title- dS2 as excitation of AdS2 We introduce a family of 2D dilaton gravity models with state-dependent constant curvature so ...
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Dynamics of the looping pendulum: theory, simulation, and experiment
European Journal of Physics (2021)
Collin Dannheim, Luke Ignell, Brendan O’Donnell, Robert McNees, et al.
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Universal Flow Equations and Chaos Bound Saturation in 2d Dilaton ...
Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) (2021)
D. Grumiller and Robert McNees
We show that several features of the Jackiw-Teitelboim model are in fact universal properties of two-dimensional Maxwell-dilaton gravity theories with ...
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Universal flow equations and chaos bound saturation in 2d dilaton ...
Journal of High Energy Physics (2021)
D. Grumiller and R. McNees
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Other
Conventions, Definitions, Identities, and Formulas
(2019)
Robert A McNees
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Article
Bounds on extra dimensions from micro black holes in the ...
Physical Review D (2019)
Katherine J. Mack and Robert McNees
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Article
Extremal Black Holes in Dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity
Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2016)
Robert McNees, Leo C. Stein and Nicolás Yunes
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Extremal black holes in dynamical Chern–Simons gravity
Classical and Quantum Gravity (2016)
Robert J. McNees, Robert J. McNees, Leo C. Stein, Nicolás Yunes, et al.
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