102 citations · 162 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
hep-th2007★ 53 cited
A pedagogical explanation for the non-renormalizability of gravity
Assaf Shomer
We present a short and intuitive argument explaining why gravity is non-renormalizable. The argument is based on black-hole domination of the high energy spectrum of gravity and no…
hep-th2007★ 102 cited
Towards observable signatures of other bubble universes
Anthony Aguirre, Matthew C Johnson, Assaf Shomer
We evaluate the possibility of observable effects arising from collisions between vacuum bubbles in a universe undergoing false-vacuum eternal inflation. Contrary to conventional w…
hep-th2006★ 7 cited
IIA moduli stabilization with badly broken supersymmetry
Michael Dine, Alexander Morisse, Assaf Shomer +1
Scherk-Schwarz compactification in string theory can be defined as orbifolding by an R symmetry, a symmetry that acts differently on bosons and fermions. Such a symmetry can arise…