Matt Visser: Journal articles


Articles in Research Journals --- Published


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Note:
--- My early papers pre-date the existence of the e-print archive and the word-wide-web.
--- Web access to my early articles is spotty at best, and there is no substitute for a good library.
--- The e-print archive came online in August 1991.
Almost all my papers from this date on can be accessed, at least in e-print form, via the world-wide-web.
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28 Sept 2011
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2011:
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169. Spectral dimension as a probe of the ultraviolet continuum regime of causal dynamical triangulations.
     (with Thomas Sotiriou and Silke Weinfurtner)
     Physical Review Letters 107 (2011) 131303
     e-Print: arXiv:1105.5646 [gr-qc] 

168. Lower-dimensional Horava-Lifshitz gravity.
     (with Thomas Sotiriou and Silke Weinfurtner)
     Physical Review D 83 (2011) 124021-1-8
     e-Print: arXiv:1103.3103 [hep-th] 

167. Elementary analysis of the special elativistic combination of velocities,
      Wigner rotation, and Thomas precession.
     (with Kane O'Donnell)
     e-print: arXiv:1102.2001 [gr-qc]
     European Journal of Physics 32 (2011) 1033
     doi: 10.1088/0143-0807/32/4/016

166. Some generalizations of the Raychaudhuri equation.
     (with Gabriel Abreu)
     e-Print: arXiv:1012.4806 [gr-qc]
     Physical Review D 83 (2011) 104016 

165. Bi-metric pseudo-Finslerian spacetimes.
     (with Jozef Skakala)
     e-Print: arXiv:1008.0689 [gr-qc]
     Journal of Geometry and Physics 61 (2011) 1396-1400
     DOI: 10.1016/j.geomphys.2011.03.003

164. Quasi-normal frequencies: Key analytic results
     (with Petarpa Boonserm)
     arXiv:1005.4483 [math-ph]
     JHEP 1103 (2011) 073.

163. Entropy bounds for uncollapsed rotating bodies.
     (with Gabriel Abreu)
     e-Print: arXiv:1012.2867 [gr-qc]
     JHEP 1103 (2011) 063.
	
162. Minimal conditions for the existence of a Hawking-like flux.
     (with Carlos Barcelo, Stefano Liberati, Sebastiano Sonego)
     e-Print: arXiv:1011.5593 [gr-qc]
     Physical Review D83 (2011) 041501, Rapid Communications.

161. The causal structure of spacetime is a parameterized Randers geometry.
     (with Jozef Skakala)
     e-Print: arXiv:1012.4467 [gr-qc]
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 28 (2011) 065007.

160. Any spacetime has a Bianchi type I spacetime as a limit.
     (with Bethan Cropp)
     e-Print: arXiv:1008.4639 [gr-qc]
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 28 (2011) 055007.
	
159. Hawking-like radiation from evolving black holes and compact horizonless objects.
     (with Carlos Barcelo, Stefano Liberati, Sebastiano Sonego)
     JHEP 1102 (2011) 003
     e-Print: arXiv:1011.5911 [gr-qc]

2010:
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158. Generic master equations for quasi-normal frequencies.
     (with Jozef Skakala)
     e-Print: arXiv:1009.0080 [gr-qc]
     JHEP 1011 (2010) 070
     doi: 10.1007/JHEP11(2010)070

157. Acoustic geometry for general relativistic barotropic irrotational fluid flow.
     (with Carmen Molina-Paris)
     e-Print: arXiv:1001.1310 [gr-qc] 
     New Journal of Physics 12 (2010) 095014
     doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/9/095014
     Special issue: Classical and quantum analogues for gravitational phenomena.

156. Semi-analytic results for quasi-normal frequencies.
     (with Jozef Skakala)
     e-Print: arXiv:1004.2539 [gr-qc] 
     JHEP 1008 (2010) 061 
     doi: 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)061

155. Kodama time: Geometrically preferred foliations of spherically symmetric spacetime.
     (with Gabriel Abreu)
     e-Print: arXiv:1004.1456 [gr-qc]
     Physical Review D82 (2010) 044027
     doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.044027

154. Pseudo-Finslerian spacetimes and multirefringence.
     (with Jozef Skakala)
     e-Print: arXiv:0806.0950 [gr-qc]
     International Journal of Modern Physics D 19 (2010) 1119-1146.
     doi: 10.1142/S0218271810017172 

153. Tolman mass, generalized surface gravity, and entropy bounds.
     (with Gabriel Abreu)
     e-Print: arXiv: 1005.1132 [gr-qc]
     Physical Review Letters 105 (2010) 041302
     doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.041302

152. General polarization modes for the Rosen gravitational wave.
     (with Bethan Cropp)
     e-Print: arXiv:1004.2734 [gr-qc] 
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 (2010) 165022
     doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/16/165022

151. Analytic bounds on transmission probabilities.
     (with Petarpa Boonserm)
     e-Print: arXiv:0901.0944 [math-ph]
     Annals of Physics 325 (2010) 1328-1339.
     doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2010.02.005

150. Highly damped quasinormal frequencies for piecewise Eckart potentials.
     (with Jozef Skakala)
     e-print: arXiv:1007.4039 [gr-qc] 
     Physical Review D81 (2010) 125023.
     doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.125023

149. Reformulating the Schrodinger equaton as a Shabat-Zakharov system.
     (with Petarpa Boonserm)
     e-Print: arXiv:0910.2600 [math-ph]
     Journal of Mathematical Physics 51 (2010) 022105
     doi: 10.1063/1.3282847

148. Signature change events: A challenge for quantum gravity?
     (with Angela White and Silke Weinfurtner)
     e-Print: arXiv:0812.3744 [gr-qc]
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 27:045007,2010. 
     doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/4/045007

2009:
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147. Quantum gravity without Lorentz invariance.
     (with Silke Weinfurtner and Thomas Sotiriou)
     e-Print: arXiv:0905.2798 [hep-th]
     JHEP 0910 (2009) 033.
     doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/033

146. Phenomenologically viable Lorentz-violating quantum gravity.
     (with Silke Weinfurtner and Thomas Sotiriou)
     arXiv:0904.4464 [hep-th]
     Physical Review Letters 102 (2009) 251601. 
     doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.251601

145. Lorentz symmetry breaking as a quantum field theory regulator.
     e-Print: arXiv:0902.0590 [hep-th]
     Physical Review D80 (2009) 025011.
     doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.025011

144. Quantum Interest in (3+1) dimensional Minkowski space.
     (with Gabriel Abreu)
     e-Print: arXiv:0808.1931 [gr-qc]
     Physical Review D 79 (2009) 065004.
     doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.065004

143. Cosmological particle production in emergent rainbow spacetimes
     (with Silke Weinfurtner, Piyush Jain, and Crispin Gardiner)
     e-Print: arXiv:0801.2673 [gr-qc]
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 26 (2009) 065012.

142. Explicit form of the Mann-Marolf surface term in (3+1) dimensions.
     e-Print: arXiv:0808.2068 [gr-qc]
     Physical Review D 79 (2009) 024023.
     doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.024023

141. Transmission probabilities and the Miller-Good transformation.
     (with Petarpa Boonserm)
     e-Print: arXiv:0808.2516 [math-ph]
     Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 42 (2009) 045301. 
     doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/4/045301

2008:
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140. Bounding the Hubble flow in terms of the w parameter 
     (with Celine Cattoen)
     e-Print: arXiv:0806.2186 [gr-qc]
     JCAP [Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics] 0811:024 (2008). 

139. Bounding the greybody factors for Schwarzschild black holes
     (with Petarpa Boonserm)
     e-Print: arXiv:0806.2209 [gr-qc]
     Physical Review D78 (2008) 101502 [Rapid Communications].

138. Bounding the Bogoliubov coefficients
     (with Petarpa Boonserm)
     e-Print:  arXiv:0801.0610 [quan-ph]
     Annals of Physics 323 (2008) 2779-2798
     Corrected Proof  

137. Cosmographic Hubble fits to the supernova data
     (with Celine Cattoen)
     Physical Review D78 (2008) 063501.
     This is a condensed and updated version of gr-qc/0703122

136.  Cosmodynamics: Energy conditions, Hubble bounds, density bounds, time and distance bounds.
      (with Celine Cattoen)
      e-Print: arXiv:0712.1619 [gr-qc]
      Classical and Quantum Gravity 25 (2008) 165013.

135. Buchdahl-like transformations for perfect fluid spheres.
     (with Petarpa Boonserm)
     e-Print:  arXiv:0707.0146 [gr-qc]
     International Journal of Modern Physics D17 (2008) 135-163 [PDF]

134. Fate of gravitational collapse in semiclassical gravity.
     (with Carlos Barcelo, Stefano Liberati, Sebastiano Sonego)
     e-Print: arXiv:0712.1130 [gr-qc]
     Physical Review D77 (2008) 044032

2007:
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133. The Hubble series: Convergence properties and redshift variables.
     (with Celine Cattoen)
     e-Print: arXiv:0710.1887 [gr-qc]
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 24 (2007) 5985-5998.

132. Trans-Planckian physics and signature change events in Bose gas hydrodynamics.
     (with Silke Weinfurtner and Angela White),
     e-Print:  gr-qc/0703117
     Physical Review D76 (2007) 124008.  

131. Solution generating theorems for the TOV equation
     (with Petarpa Boonserm and Silke Weinfurtner)
     e-Print:  gr-qc/0607001 
     Physical Review D76 (2007) 044024. 

130. Analogue model of a FRW universe in Bose-Einstein condensates: Application of the classical field method.
    (with Piyush Jain, Silke Weinfurtner, and Crispin Gardiner)
    e-Print:  arXiv:0705.2077 [cond-mat.other]
    Physical Review A 76 (2007) 033616.

2006:
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129. Hawking-like radiation does not require a trapped region
     (with Carlos Barcelo, Stefano Liberati, and Sebastiano Sonego)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0607008  
     Physical Review Letters 97 (2006) 171301.

128. Combining rotation curves and gravitational lensing: 
     How to measure the equation of state of dark matter in the galactic fluid
     (with Tristan Faber)
     e-Print Archive:  astro-ph/0512213 
     Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 372 (2006) 136--142. 
     PDF

127. Quasi-particle creation by analogue black holes
     (with Carlos Barcelo, Stefano Liberati, and Sebastiano Sonego)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0604058 
     Classical and Quantum Gravity  23 (2006) 5341-5366. 
     [Local PDF (318 K)]

126. Production and decay of evolving horizons
     (with Alex Nielsen)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0510083  
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 23 (2006) 4637-4658.
     [Local PDF (262 K)]

125. Naturalness in emergent spacetime
     (with Stefano Liberati and Silke Weinfurtner)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0512139  
     Physical Review Letters 96 (2006) 151301.

124. Analogue model for quantum gravity phenomenology.
     (with Silke Weinfurtner and Stefano Liberati)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0511105 
     Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT 05), 
     Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 5-9 Sept 2005.
     Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 39 (2006) 6807-6813.

123. Analogue quantum gravity phenomenology from a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate
     (with Stefano Liberati and Silke Weinfurtner)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0510125  
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 23 (2006) 3129--3154 .

2005:
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122. Heuristic approach to the Schwarzschild geometry
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0309072 
     International Journal of Modern Physics D14 (2005) 2051-2068.
     Special December 2005 "Year of Physics" issue. 

121. Analogue gravity
     (with Carlos Barcelo and Stefano Liberati)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0505065 
     Living Reviews in Relativity 8 (2005) 12. 
     http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2005-12  

120. Necessary and sufficient conditions for big bangs, bounces, crunches, rips, sudden singularities, and extremality events
     (with Celine Cattoen)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0508045   
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 22 (2005) 4913-4930.

119. Cosmography: Cosmology without the Einstein equations
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0411131 
     General Relativity and Gravitation 37 (2005) 1541-1548.
     (Special issue: ACGRG4 meeting).

118. Gravastars must have anisotropic pressures
     (with Celine Cattoen and Tristan Faber)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0505137
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 22 (2005) 4189--4202.   

117. Massive Klein--Gordon equation from a BEC-based analogue spacetime
     (with Silke Weinfurtner)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0506029 
     Physical Review D72 (2004) 044020.

116. Generating perfect fluid spheres in general relativity.
     (with Petarpa Boonserm and Silke Weinfurtner)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0503007  
     Physical Review D71 (2005) 124037.

115. Vortex geometry for the equatorial slice of the Kerr black hole
     (with Silke Weinfurtner)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0409014  
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 22 (2005) 2493-2510.

114. Effective refractive index tensor for weak-field gravity
     (with Petarpa Boonserm, Celine Cattoen, Tristan Faber, and Silke Weinfurtner)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0411034 
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 22 (2005) 1905-1915.

113. Interpreting doubly special relativity as a modified theory of measurement
     (with Stefano Liberati and Sebastiano Sonego) 
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0410113 
     Physical Review D71 (2005) 045001. 

2004:
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112. Quantifying energy condition violations in traversable wormholes
     (with Sayan Kar and Naresh Dadhich)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0405103
     Pramana 63 (2004) 859--864.
     [Local PDF (99 K)]

111. Fundamental limitations on "warp drive" spacetimes
     (with Francisco Lobo)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0406083  
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 21 (2004) 5871--5872.

110. Causal structure of acoustic spacetimes
     (with Carlos Barcelo, Stefano Liberati, and Sebastiano Sonego)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0408022 
     New Journal of Physics 6 (2004) 186.

109. Dirty black holes: Symmetries at stationary non-static horizons
     (with Damien Martin and Joey Medved)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0403026 
     Physical Review D70 (2004) 024009.

108. Dirty black holes: Spacetime geometry and near-horizon symmetries.
     (with Damien Martin and Joey Medved)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0402069  
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 21 (2004) 3111-3126.

107. Algorithmic construction of static perfect fluid spheres.
     (with Damien Martin)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0306109  
     Physical Review D69 (2004) 104028.

106. Jerk, snap, and the cosmological equation of state
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0309109  
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 21 (2004) 2603--2615.
     [PDF proofs]  

105. Wave equation for sound in fluids with vorticity
     (with Santiago Bergliaffa, Katrina Hibberd, and Mike Stone)
     e-Print Archive:  cond-mat/0106255  
     Physica D 191 (2004) 121--136.
     [PDF]  

104. Dirty black holes: Quasinormal modes for "squeezed" horizons
     (with Joey Medved and Damien Martin)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0310097
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 21 (2004) 2393--2405.
     [PDF proofs]  

103. Dirty black holes: Quasinormal modes
     (with Joey Medved and Damien Martin)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0310009  
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 21 (2004) 1393--1405.
     [PDF proofs]  

102. Stable gravastars --- an alternative to black holes?
     (with David Wiltshire)
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0310107  
     Classical and Quantum Gravity 21 (2004) 1135--1151.
     [PDF proofs]  

2003:
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101. Analogue models for FRW cosmologies
     (with Carlos Barcelo and Stefano Liberati)
     Awarded an honorable mention in the year 2003 Gravity Research Foundation essay competition. 
     e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0305061  
     International Journal of Modern Physics D 12 (2003) 1641--1649.
     [PDF proofs]  

100. Probing semiclassical analogue gravity in Bose--Einstein condensates with widely tunable interactions
     (with Carlos Barcelo and Stefano Liberati)
     e-Print Archive:  cond-mat/0307491
     Physical Review A. 68 (2003) 053613.
     [PDF proofs]  

99. Towards the observation of Hawking radiation in Bose--Einstein condensates
    (with Carlos Barceló and Stefano Liberati)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0110036 
    International Journal of Modern Physics A. 18 (2003) 3735-3745. 
    [PDF proofs]  

98. Power laws, scale invariance and generalized Frobenius series:
    Applications to Newtonian and TOV stars near criticality.
    (with Nicolas Yunes)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0211001
    International Journal of Modern Physics A. 18 (2003) 3433-3468.
    [PDF proofs]  

97. Physical wavelets: Lorentz covariant, singularity-free, finite energy, 
    zero action, localized solutions to the wave equation.
    e-Print Archive:  hep-th/0304081
    Physics Letters A 315 (2003) 219-224.
    [PDF proofs] 

96. Conservation laws in "Doubly Special Relativity"
    (with Simon Judes)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0205067
    [Version 2 of gr-qc/0205067 is a merger of version 1 of gr-qc/0205067 with 
     version 1 of the now abandoned article gr-qc/0205093]
    Physical Review D68 (2003) 045001
    [PDF proofs]  

95. Bounds on the interior geometry and pressure profile of static fluid spheres.
    (with Damien Martin)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0306038 
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 20 (2003) 3699-3716.
    [PDF proofs]   

94. Essential and inessential features of Hawking radiation
    e-Print Archive:  hep-th/0106111  
    International Journal of Modern Physics D12 (2003) 649-661.
    [PDF proofs]  

93. Traversable wormholes with arbitrarily small energy condition violations
    (with Sayan Kar and Naresh Dadhich)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0301003
    Physical Review Letters 90 (2003) 201102.

92. On-brane data for braneworld stars
    (with David Wiltshire)
     e-Print Archive:  hep-th/0212333
     Physical Review D67 (2003) 104004.

91. Warped space-time for phonons moving in a perfect nonrelativistic fluid
    (with Uwe Fischer)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0211029
    Europhysics Letters 62 (2003) 1-7.
    [PDF proofs]  

90. Space-time curvature experienced by quasiparticle excitations in the Painleve--Gullstrand effective geometry
    (with Uwe Fischer)
    e-Print Archive:  cond-mat/0205139  
    Annals of Physics 304 (2003) 22-39. 
    [PDF proofs]  

2002:
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89. Twilight for the energy conditions?
    (with Carlos Barceló)
    Awarded an honorable mention in the year 2002 Gravity Research Foundation essay competition. 
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0205066
    International Journal of Modern Physics D11 (2002) 1553-1560.
    [PDF proofs]  

88. Analogue models of and for gravity.
    (with Carlos Barceló and Stefano Liberati) 
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0111111
    Plenary talk presented at the Australasian Relativity Conference, Perth, July 2001. 
    General Relativity and Gravitation 34 (2002) 1719--1734.

87. Sakharov's induced gravity, a modern perspective.
    Contribution to the ``First IUCCA Meeting on the Interface of 
    Gravitational and Quantum Realms'', held in Pune (India) in December 2001.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0204062.
    Modern Physics Letters A 17 (2002) 977--991.

86. Faster-than-c signals, special relativity, and causality
    (with Stefano Liberati and Sebastiano Sonego)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0107091 
    Annals of Physics 298 (2002) 167-185.
    [PDF proofs]  

85. Refringence, field theory, and normal modes
    (with Carlos Barceló and Stefano Liberati)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0111059  
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 19 (2002) 2961-2982.
    [PDF proofs]  

84. Riemannian geometry of irrotational vortex acoustics
    (with Uwe Fischer)
    e-Print Archive:  cond-mat/0110211  
    Physical Review Letters 88 (2002) 110201. 
    [Local gzipped postscript]
    [Local PDF]

83. Spacetime geometry of static fluid spheres.
    (with Shahinur Rahman) 
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0103065
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 19 (2002) 935--952.
    [IOP server] 
    [Local gzipped postscript]
    
82. R = 0 spacetimes and self-dual Lorentzian wormholes.
    (with Naresh Dadhich, Sayan Kar, and Sailajananda Mukherji)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0109069  
    Physical Review D65 (2002) 064004.
    [APS server] 

2001:
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81. Einstein gravity as an emergent phenomenon?
    (with Carlos Barceló and Stefano Liberati)
    Awarded an honorable mention in the year 2001 Gravity Research Foundation essay competition. 
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0106002 
    International Journal of Modern Physics D10 (2001) 799-806.	

80. Analog gravity from field theory normal modes?
    (with Carlos Barceló and Stefano Liberati), 
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0104001 
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 18 (2001) 3595-3610.
    [IOP server --- sometimes slow] 
    [Local PDF (123K)]
    [Local Gzipped Postscript (121K)]

79. Analog gravity from Bose-Einstein condensates.
    (with Carlos Barceló and Stefano Liberati)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0011026
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 18 (2001) 1137-1156 
    [IOP server] 
    [Local PDF (154K)]
    [Local Gzipped Postscript (144K)]

78. Scharnhorst effect at oblique incidence.
    (with Stefano Liberati and Sebastiano Sonego)
    e-Print Archive: quant-ph/0010055
    Physical Review D63 (2001) 085003

77. Heat kernel regularization of the effective action for stochastic reaction--diffusion equations.
    (with David Hochberg and Carmen Molina-París)
    e-Print Archive: cond-mat/0009424
    Physical Review E63 (2001) 036132

76. Small-scale properties of the KPZ equation and dynamical symmetry breaking.
    (with David Hochberg, Carmen Molina-París, and Juan Pérez-Mercader)
    e-Print Archive: cond-mat/9904413
    Physics Letters A278 (2001) 177-183
    [Elsevier server]
    [Local PDF copy (91 K)]

75. Moduli fields and brane tensions: Generalizing the junction conditions.
    (with Carlos Barceló)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0008008
    Physical Review D63 (2001) 024004 

2000:
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74. Comment on "Relativistic Effects of Light in Moving Media
    with Extremely Low Group Velocity".
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0002011
    Physical Review Letters 85 (2000) 5252

73. Braneworld gravity: Influence of the moduli fields.
    (with Carlos Barceló)
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/0009032
    Journal of High Energy Physics 10 (2000) 019

72. Geometrodynamics of Variable--Speed--of--Light Cosmologies.
    (with Bruce Bassett, Carmen Molina-París, and Stefano Liberati)
    e-Print Archive: astro-ph/0001441
    Physical Review D62 (2000) 103518

71. Scalar fields, energy conditions, and traversable wormholes.
    (with Carlos Barceló)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0003025
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 17 (2000) 3843-3864
    [IOP server]
    [Local PDF copy (216 K)]
    [Local Postscript copy (213 K)]

70. Brane surgery: energy conditions, traversable wormholes, and voids.
    (with Carlos Barceló)
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/0004022
    Nuclear Physics B584 (2000) 415--435
    [Elsevier server]
    [Local PDF copy (160 K)]

69. Unexpectedly large surface gravities for acoustic horizons?
    (with Stefano Liberati and Sebastiano Sonego)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0003105
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 17 (2000) 2903--2923
    [IOP server]
    [Local PDF copy (200 K)]

68. Sonoluminescence: Two-photon correlations as a test for thermality.
    (with Francesco Belgiorno, Stefano Liberati, and Dennis W. Sciama)
    e-Print Archive: quant-ph/9904018
    Physics Letters A271 (2000) 308--313
    [Elsevier server]
    [Local PDF copy (62 K)]

67. Effective potential for reaction-diffusion-decay systems.
    (with David Hochberg, Carmen Molina-París, and Juan Pérez-Mercader)
    e-Print Archive: cond-mat/9909078
    Journal of Statistical Physics 99 (2000) 903--941
    [JSP server --- abstract only]

66. Living on the edge: cosmology on the boundary of anti-de Sitter space
    (with Carlos Barceló)
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/0004056
    Physics Letters B 482 (2000) 183--194
    [Elsevier server]
    [Local PDF copy (107 K)]

65. Effective potential for the massless Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation.
    (with David Hochberg, Carmen Molina-París, and Juan Pérez-Mercader)
    e-Print Archive: cond-mat/9904391
    Physica A280 (2000) 437-455.

64. Sonoluminescence as a QED vacuum effect. II. Finite volume effects.
    (with Stefano Liberati, Francesco Belgiorno, and Dennis W. Sciama)
    e-Print Archive: quant-ph/9905034
    Physical Review D61 (2000) 085024

63. Sonoluminescence as a QED vacuum effect. I. The physical scenario.
    (with Stefano Liberati, Francesco Belgiorno, and Dennis W. Sciama)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9910026
    Physical Review D61 (2000) 085023  

62. Sonoluminescence as a QED vacuum effect: Probing Schwinger's proposal.
    (with Stefano Liberati, Francesco Belgiorno, and Dennis W. Sciama)
    e-Print Archive: quant-ph/9805031
    Journal of Physics A33 (2000) 2251-2272
    [IOP server]
    [Local PDF copy (396 K)]
    [Local Postscript copy (2.1 M)]

1999:
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61. Traversable wormholes from massless conformally coupled scalar fields.
    (with Carlos Barceló)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9908029
    Physics Letters B 466 (1999) 127-134.
    [Elsevier server]
    [Local PDF copy (95 K)]

60. Effective actions for stochastic differential equations.
    (with David Hochberg, Carmen Molina-París, and Juan Pérez-Mercader)
    e-Print Archive: cond-mat/9904215
    Physical Review E60 (1999) 6343-6360

59. Sonoluminescence: Bogolubov coefficients for the QED vacuum of a collapsing bubble.
    (with Stefano Liberati, Francesco Belgiorno, and Dennis W. Sciama)
    e-Print Archive: quant-ph/9805023
    Physical Review Letters 83 (1999) 678-681

58. Minimal conditions for the creation of a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe from a ``bounce''.
    (with Carmen Molina-París)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9810023
    Physics Letters B455 (1999) 90-95. 
    [Elsevier server]
    [Local PDF copy (62 K)]

57. Renormalization Group Improving the Effective Action.
    (with David Hochberg, Carmen Molina-París, and Juan Pérez-Mercader)
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9809198
    International Journal of Modern Physics A14 (1999) 1485-1521
    [IJMP server]

56. Tolman wormholes violate the strong energy condition.
    (with David Hochberg and Carmen Molina-París)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9810029
    Physical Review D59 (1999) 044011

55. Some general bounds for 1-D scattering.
    e-Print Archive: quant-ph/9901030 
    Physical Review A59 (1999) 427--438

1998:
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54. Zeta functions, renormalization group equations, and the effective action.
    (with David Hochberg, Carmen Molina-París, and Juan Pérez-Mercader)
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9809206
    Physical Review Letters  81 (1998) 4802--4805

53. The null energy condition in dynamic wormholes.
    (with David Hochberg)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9802048
    Physical Review Letters 81 (1998) 746-749 

52. Dynamic wormholes, anti-trapped surfaces, and energy conditions.
    (With David Hochberg)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9802046
    Physical Review D58 (1998) 044021 

51. Mass for the graviton.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9705051
    [This essay was awarded an honorable mention in the 1997 
    Essay Competition sponsored by the Gravity Research Foundation.]    
    General Relativity and Gravitation 30 (1998) 1717--1728.

50. Acoustic black holes: horizons, ergospheres, and Hawking radiation.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9712010
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 15 (1998) 1767--1791.
    [IOP server]
    [Local PDF copy (245 K)]

49. Hawking radiation without black hole entropy.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9712016
    Physical Review Letters 80 (1998) 3436--3439

1997:
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48. General relativistic energy conditions:
    the Hubble flow in the epoch of galaxy formation.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9705070
    Physical Review D56 (1997) 7578--7587

47. Casimir Effect in Dielectrics: Surface Area Contribution.
    (with Carmen Molina-París)
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9707073
    Physical Review D56 (1997) 6629-6639

46. Geometric structure of the generic static traversable wormhole throat.
    (with David Hochberg)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9704082
    Physical Review D56 (1997) 4745--4755

45. The reliability horizon for semiclassical quantum gravity: 
    Fluctuations are often more important than back reaction.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9702041
    Physics Letters B 415 (1997) 8--14.

44. Casimir Effect in Dielectrics: Bulk Energy Contribution
    (with Carl E. Carlson, Carmen Molina-París, and Juan Pérez-Mercader)
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9702007
    Physical Review D56 (1977) 1262--1281

43. Gravitational vacuum polarization IV: Energy conditions in the Unruh vacuum.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9703001
    Physical Review D56 (1997) 936--952

42. Energy conditions in the epoch of galaxy formation. [PDF-local]
    Science 276 (4 April 1997) 88-90.
 
41. Traversable wormholes: the Roman ring.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9702043
    Physical Review D 55 (1997) 5212--5214.

40. Schwinger's Dynamical Casimir Effect: Bulk Energy Contribution.
    (with Carl E. Carlson, Carmen Molina-París, and Juan Pérez-Mercader)
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9609195
    Physics Letters B 395 (1997) 76--82.

1996:
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39. Gravitational vacuum polarization III: Energy conditions in the (1+1) Schwarzschild spacetime.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9604009
    Physical Review D54 (1996) 5123--5128

38. Gravitational vacuum polarization II: Energy conditions in the Boulware vacuum.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9604008
    Physical Review D54 (1996) 5116--5122

37. Gravitational vacuum polarization I: Energy conditions in the Hartle-Hawking vacuum.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9604007
    Physical Review D54 (1996) 5103--5115

1995:
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36. Thin-shell wormholes: Linearization stability 
    (with Eric Poisson)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9506083
    Physical Review D52 (1995) 7318--7321

35. Scale anomalies imply violation of the averaged null energy condition. 
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9409043
    Physics Letters B349 (1995) 443--447.	   

34. Natural wormholes as gravitational lenses. 
    (with John Cramer, Robert Forward, Michael Morris, Gregory Benford, and Geoffrey Landis)
    e-Print Archive: astro-ph/9409051
    Physical Review D51 (1995) 3117--3120

1994:
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33. van Vleck determinants: Traversable wormhole spacetimes. 
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9311026
    Physical Review D49 (1994) 3963--3980

32. Hawking's chronology protection conjecture: 
    Singularity structure of the quantum stress-energy tensor. 
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9303023
    Nuclear Physics B416 (1994) 895--906
    [NPB server --- abstract only]

31. Lateral wave contributions to the low-altitude radar propagation factor. 
    (with Gerald Gilbert and Eric Raiten)
    Radio Science 29 (1994) 483--494.

1993:
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30. Dirty black holes: Entropy as a surface term. 
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9307194
    Physical Review D48 (1993) 5697--5705

29. Dirty black holes: Entropy versus area. 
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9303029
    Physical Review D48 (1993) 583--591

28. Hawking radiation: A particle physics perspective. 
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9204062
    Modern Physics Letters A8 (1993) 1661--1670.

27. van Vleck determinants: Geodesic focussing and defocussing in Lorentzian spacetimes. 
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9303020
    Physical Review D47 (1993) 2395--2402

26. From wormhole to time machine: Remarks on Hawking's chronology protection conjecture. 
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9202090
    Physical Review D47 (1993) 554--565

1992:
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25. Dirty black holes: Thermodynamics and horizon structure. 
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9203057
    Physical Review D46 (1992) 2445--2451


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1991:
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24. Analytic results for the effective action. 
    (with Steve Blau and Andreas Wipf)
    International Journal of Modern Physics A6 (1991) 5409--5433.
    Postscript (303 K)
    PDF (311 K)
 
23. Wheeler wormholes and topology change: A minisuperspace analysis. 
    Modern Physics Letters A6 (1991) 2663--2667.
    [Based on an essay that was awarded an honorable mention in the 1990 Essay 
    Competition sponsored by the Gravity Research Foundation.]

22. Quantum wormholes. 
    Physical Review D43 (1991) 402--409

1990:
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21. Canonically quantized gravity: 
    Disentangling the supermomentum and superhamiltonian constraints. 
    Physical Review D42 (1990) 1964--1972
  
20. Quantum mechanical stabilization of Minkowski signature wormholes. 
    Physics Letters B242 (1990) 24--28.
    [Based on a talk given at the  `Wormshop', Fermilab, May 1989.]

19. Wormholes, baby universes, and causality. 
    Physical Review D41 (1990) 1116--1124

1989:
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18. Traversable wormholes from surgically modified Schwarzschild spacetimes. 
    Nuclear Physics B328 (1989) 203--212.

17. Traversable wormholes: Some simple examples. 
    Physical Review D39 (1989) 3182--3184

16. A classical model for the electron. 
    Physics Letters A139 (1989) 99--102.

15. Determinants, Dirac operators, and one--loop physics. 
    (with Steve Blau and Andreas Wipf)
    International Journal of Modern Physics A4 (1989) 1467--1484.

1988:
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14. Zeta functions and the Casimir energy. 
    (with Steve Blau and Andreas Wipf)
    Nuclear Physics B310 (1988) 163--180.
    PDF (285 K)
    Postscript (267 K)
    G-zipped Postscript (109 K)
 
13. Determinants of conformal wave operators in four dimensions. 
    (with Steve Blau and Andreas Wipf) 
    Physics Letters B209 (1988) 209--213.
 
12. Is the `missing mass' really missing? 
    General Relativity and Gravitation 20 (1988) 77--81. 
    [This essay was awarded an honorable mention in the 1987 Essay Competition 
    sponsored by the Gravity Research Foundation.]
 
1987:
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11. Feeble forces and gravity. 
    (with Itzhak Bars)
    General Relativity and Gravitation 19 (1987) 219--223. 
    [This essay was awarded Second Prize in the 1986 Essay Competition 
    sponsored by the Gravity Research Foundation.]
 
1986:
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10. Feeble intermediate range forces from higher dimensions. 
    (with Itzhak Bars)
    Physical Review Letters 57 (1986) 25--28
 
9.  Tree level mass spectra in the observable sector. 
    Nuclear Physics B271 (1986) 53--60.

1985:
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8.  Tuning the cosmological constant in N=1 supergravity. 
    Physics Letters B165 (1985) 289--291.

7.  Number of massless fermion families in superstring theory. 
    (with Itzhak Bars)
    Physics Letters B163 (1985) 118--122.
 
6.  A supergravity model without elementary gauge singlets. 
    Physics Letters B160 (1985) 77--80.
 
5.  An exotic class of Kaluza-Klein models. 
    Physics Letters B158 (1985) 22-25.
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9910093
 
4.  Some generalizations of the O'Raifeartaigh model. 
    Journal of Physics A18 (1985) L979--L982.
 
3.  The topological degree for supersymmetric chiral models. 
    Physical Review D32 (1985) 510--512

1982:
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2.  Concerning the mass of the photon. 
    Physics Letters B109 (1982) 373--374.

1981:
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1.  Charge nonconserving decays in ordinary matter. 
    Physical Review D24 (1981) 2542--2544


Articles in Press


1. Comment on: Detecting Vanishing Dimensions Via Primordial Gravitational Wave Astronomy.
   (with Thomas Sotiriou and Silke Weinfurtner)
   Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
   e-Print: arXiv:1104.1223 [gr-qc]

2. From dispersion relations to spectral dimension - and back again.
   (with Thomas Sotiriou and Silke Weinfurtner)
   Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
   e-Print: arXiv:1105.6098 [hep-th] 

Articles in Research Journals --- Under Review



1. Compound transfer matrices: Constructive and destructive interference.
   (with Petarapa Boonserm)
   e-Print: arXiv:1101.4014 [math-ph]

2. Entropy bounds in terms of the w parameter.
   (with Gabriel Abreu and  Carlos Barcelo)
   e-Print: arXiv:1109.2710 [gr-qc]

3. Conservative entropic forces.
   e-Print: arXiv:1108.5240 [hep-th]

4. Fixed-Topology Lorentzian Triangulations: Quantum Regge Calculus in the Lorentzian Domain.
   (with Kyle Tate)
   e-Print: arXiv:1108.4965 [gr-qc]


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