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Behavior of a Chiral Condensate Around Astrophysical-Mass Schwarschild and Reissner-Nordström Black Holes
Ross DeMott, Alex Flournoy
In this work, we develop a perturbative method to describe the behavior of a chiral condensate around a spherical black hole whose mass is astrophysically realistic. We use the inv…
On the Stability of a Wormhole in the Maximally-Extended Reissner-Nordström Solution
Ross DeMott, Sam Major, Alex Flournoy
We consider the stability of the maximally-extended Reissner-Nordström solution in a Minkowski, de Sitter, or anti-de Sitter background. In a broad class of situations, prior work…
Holographic Entanglement Entropy and the (3+1)-dimensional Topological Black Hole
Zachary Polonsky, Alex Flournoy
We investigate the Holographic Entanglement Entropy proposal in the context of the (3+1)-dimensional topological black hole. In contrast to the well-studied (2+1)-dimensional case,…
Thermodynamic phase transitions from dynamical compact dimensions
Zachary Polonsky, Alex Flournoy
We perform a double quotient of global AdS and study its thermal properties. We find that a double quotient yields a spacetime with an expanding compact dimension. Studying the…
Connecting Through Obstruction; Relating Gauge Gravity and String Theory
Casey Cartwright, Alex Flournoy
In this article we provide a more detailed account of the geometry and topology of the composite bundle formalism introduced by Tresguerres in Phys. Rev. D 66 (2002) 064025 [1] to…
Background-Independence from the Perspective of Gauge Theory
Casey Cartwright, Alex Flournoy
We consider two concepts often discussed as significant features of general relativity (particularly when contrasted with the other forces of the Standard Model): background indepe…