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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…
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…
Nongeometry, Duality Twists, and the Worldsheet
Alex Flournoy, Brook Williams
In this paper, we use orbifold methods to construct nongeometric backgrounds, and argue that they correspond to the spacetimes discussed in \cite{dh,wwf}. More precisely, we make e…
Constructing Nongeometric Vacua in String Theory
Alex Flournoy, Brian Wecht, Brook Williams
In this paper we investigate compactifications of the type II and heterotic string on four-dimensional spaces with nongeometric monodromies. We explicitly construct backgrounds whi…
Closed String Tachyons and Semi-Classical Instabilities
S. P. de Alwis, A. T. Flournoy
We conjecture that the end point of bulk closed string tachyon decay at any non-zero coupling, is the annihilation of space time by Witten's bubble of nothing, resulting in a topol…