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Plane waves and space-like infinity (2003)
Journal Article
Marolf, D., & Ross, S. F. (2003). Plane waves and space-like infinity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 20, 4119-4133

A new recipe for causal completions (2003)
Journal Article
Marolf, D., & Ross, S. F. (2003). A new recipe for causal completions. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 20, 4085-4118

Plane waves: To infinity and beyond! (2002)
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Marolf, D., & Ross, S. F. (2002). Plane waves: To infinity and beyond!. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 19, 6289-6302. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/19/24/302

We describe the asymptotic boundary of the general homogeneous plane wave spacetime, using a construction of the 'points at infinity' from the causal structure of the spacetime as introduced by Geroch, Kronheimer and Penrose. We show that this constr... Read More about Plane waves: To infinity and beyond!.

The dual of nothing (2002)
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Balasubramanian, V., & Ross, S. F. (2002). The dual of nothing. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 66(8), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.66.086002

We consider “bubbles of nothing” constructed by analytically continuing black hole solutions in anti–de Sitter space. These provide interesting examples of smooth time-dependent backgrounds which can be studied through the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our... Read More about The dual of nothing.

The enhançon and the consistency of excision. (2001)
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Johnson, C. V., Myers, R. C., Peet, A. W., & Ross, S. F. (2001). The enhançon and the consistency of excision. Physical Review D, 64(10), Article 106001. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.64.106001

The enhançon mechanism removes a family of timelike singularities from certain supergravity spacetimes by forming a shell of branes on which the exterior geometry terminates. The problematic interior geometry is replaced by a new spacetime, which in... Read More about The enhançon and the consistency of excision..

Supersymmetric conical defects: towards a string theoretic description of black hole formation (2001)
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Balasubramanian, V., de Boer, J., Keski-Vakkuri, E., & Ross, S. F. (2001). Supersymmetric conical defects: towards a string theoretic description of black hole formation. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 64(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.64.064011

Conical defects, or point particles, in AdS3 are one of the simplest nontrivial gravitating systems, and are particularly interesting because black holes can form from their collision. We embed the BPS conical defects of three dimensions into the N=4... Read More about Supersymmetric conical defects: towards a string theoretic description of black hole formation.