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8 papers
Formal Game Grammar and Equivalence
Paul Riggins, David McPherson
We develop methods to formally describe and compare games, in order to probe questions of game structure and design, and as a stepping stone to predicting player behavior from desi…
Tools for Mathematical Ludology
Paul Riggins, David McPherson
We propose the study of mathematical ludology, which aims to formally interrogate questions of interest to game studies and game design in particular. The goal is to extend our mat…
Particle Probes with Superradiant Pulsars
David E. Kaplan, Surjeet Rajendran, Paul Riggins
We demonstrate that rotational superradiance can be efficient in millisecond pulsars. Measurements from the two fastest known pulsars PSR J1748-2446ad and PSR B1937+21 can place bo…
Type Ia supernovae from dark matter core collapse
Ryan Janish, Vijay Narayan, Paul Riggins
Dark matter (DM) which sufficiently heats a local region in a white dwarf will trigger runaway fusion, igniting a type Ia supernova (SN). In a companion paper, this instability was…
Axion production and detection with superconducting RF cavities
Ryan Janish, Vijay Narayan, Surjeet Rajendran +1
We propose a novel design of a laboratory search for axions based on photon regeneration with superconducting RF cavities. Our particular setup uses a toroid as a region of confine…
White Dwarfs as Dark Matter Detectors
Peter Graham, Ryan Janish, Vijay Narayan +2
Dark matter that is capable of sufficiently heating a local region in a white dwarf will trigger runaway fusion and ignite a type Ia supernova. This was originally proposed in Grah…
On black hole thermalization, D0 brane dynamics, and emergent spacetime
Paul Riggins, Vatche Sahakian
When matter falls past the horizon of a large black hole, the expectation from string theory is that the configuration thermalizes and the information in the probe is rather quickl…
Toric Symmetry of CP^3
Dagan Karp, Dhruv Ranganathan, Paul Riggins +1
We exhaustively analyze the toric symmetries of CP^3 and its toric blowups. Our motivation is to study toric symmetry as a computational technique in Gromov-Witten theory and Donal…