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most citedFive-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation

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hep-th20061 cited

Mach's Holographic Principle

Justin Khoury, Maulik Parikh

Mach's principle is the concept that inertial frames are determined by matter. We propose and implement a precise formulation of Mach's principle in which matter and geometry are i…

hep-th200648 cited

Nonextremal black holes are BPS

Christopher M. Miller, Koenraad Schalm, Erick J. Weinberg

Extremal charged black holes are BPS solutions. It is commonly thought that their nonextremal counterparts are not. Further, experience with BPS solutions in flat spacetime suggest…

hep-th200636 cited

Hawking-Moss bounces and vacuum decay rates

Erick J. Weinberg

The conventional interpretation of the Hawking-Moss (HM) solution implies a transition rate between vacua that depends only on the values of the potential in the initial vacuum and…

hep-th200650 cited

Transitions Between de Sitter Minima

Puneet Batra, Matthew Kleban

We investigate the cosmological signatures of instantons mediating tunneling between de Sitter minima. For generic potentials the Coleman-de Luccia instanton does not necessarily e…

hep-th200612 cited

Vacuum Sampling in the Landscape during Inflation

Hooman Davoudiasl, Sash Sarangi, Gary Shiu

We consider the phenomenological consequences of sampling multiple vacua during inflation motivated by an enormous landscape. A generic consequence of this sampling is the formatio…

hep-th2006144 cited

Magnetic Monopole Dynamics, Supersymmetry, and Duality

Erick J. Weinberg, Piljin Yi

We review the properties of BPS, or supersymmetric, magnetic monopoles, with an emphasis on their low-energy dynamics and their classical and quantum bound states. After an overvie…