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On the Multiple Deaths of Whitehead's Theory of Gravity
Gary Gibbons, Clifford M. Will
Whitehead's 1922 theory of gravitation continues to attract the attention of philosophers, despite evidence presented in 1971 that it violates experiment. We demonstrate that the t…
Fermions on Colliding Branes
Gary Gibbons, Kei-ichi Maeda, Yu-ichi Takamizu
We study the behaviour of five-dimensional fermions localized on branes, which we describe by domain walls, when two parallel branes collide in a five-dimensional Minkowski backgro…
The Measure Problem in Cosmology
G. W. Gibbons, Neil Turok
The Hamiltonian structure of general relativity provides a natural canonical measure on the space of all classical universes, i.e., the multiverse. We review this construction and…
Open M5-branes
Eric A. Bergshoeff, Gary W. Gibbons, Paul K. Townsend
We show how, in heterotic M-theory, an M5-brane in the 11-dimensional bulk may end on an ``M9-brane'' boundary, the M5-brane boundary being a Yang monopole 4-brane. This possibilit…
The Positive Mass and Isoperimetric Inequalities for Axisymmetric Black Holes in four and five dimensions
G. W. Gibbons, G. Holzegel
In this paper we revisit Brill's proof of positive mass for three-dimensional, time-symmetric, axisymmetric initial data and generalise his argument in various directions. In 3+1 d…
Nonlinear perturbations of the Kaluza-Klein monopole
Piotr Bizoń, Tadeusz Chmaj, Gary Gibbons
We consider the nonlinear stability of the Kaluza-Klein monopole viewed as the static solution of the five dimensional vacuum Einstein equations. Using both numerical and analytica…