Papers

Here are some links to papers that I have written. They can be downloaded from the arXiv in a variety of formats. If you have a pdf viewer installed (like Adobe Acrobat) you should have no problem.

  1. "Boundary Terms Unbound! Holographic Renormalization of Asymptotically Linear Dilaton Gravity"
    With Robert Mann.
  2. "Holographic Description of AdS_2 Black Holes"
    With Alejandra Castro, Daniel Grumiller, and Finn Larsen.
  3. "On quark masses in holographic QCD"
    With Robert C. Myers and Aninda Sinha.
  4. "On the Stress Tensor for Asymptotically Flat Gravity"
    With Robert Mann, Donald Marolf, and Amitabh Virmani.
  5. "Dirichlet boundary value problem for Chern-Simons modified gravity"
    With Daniel Grumiller and Robert Mann.
  6. "Black Hole Thermodynamics and Hamilton-Jacobi Counterterm"
    With Luzi Bergamin, Daniel Grumiller, and Rene Meyer, proceedings contribution to QFEXT07, published in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 164068.
  7. "Thermodynamics of Black Holes in Two (and Higher) Dimensions"
    With D. Grumiller, published in JHEP 0704:074, 2007.
  8. "A New Boundary Counterterm for Asymptotically AdS Spacetimes"
  9. "Boundary Counterterms and the Thermodynamics of 2-D Black Holes"
    With J. Davis, published in JHEP 0509:072,2005.
  10. "Black Hole Masses and Hamilton-Jacobi Counterterms"
    With A. Batrachenko, J. Liu, W.A. Sabra, and W.Y. Wen, published in JHEP 0505:034,2005.
  11. "Holography, Diffeomorphisms, and The CMB"
    With F. Larsen, published in JHEP 0407:062,2004.
  12. "Inflation and De Sitter Holography"
    With F. Larsen, published in JHEP 0307:051,2003.
  13. "Entropy of the Stiffest Stars"
    With T. Banks, W. Fischler, A. Kashani-Poor, and S. Paban, published in Class.Quant.Grav.19:4717-4728,2002.
  14. "String Theory, Holography, and UV-IR Mixing"
    Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
  15. "The Acceleration of the Universe, A Challenge for String Theory''
    With W. Fischler, A. Kashani-Poor, and S. Paban, published in JHEP 0107:003, 2001.
  16. "The Interplay Between $\theta$ and T"
    With W. Fischler, E. Gorbatov, A. Kashani-Poor, S. Paban, and P. Pouliot, published in JHEP 0006: 032, 2000.
  17. "Correlation Functions of Operators and Wilson Surfaces in the d=6, (0,2) Theory in the Large N Limit"
    With R. Corrado and B. Florea, published in Phys. Rev. D 60:085011, 1999.
  18. "Cryptosystems Based on Chaotic Dynamics"
    With V. Protopopescu, R.T. Santoro, and J.S. Tolliver. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Report ORNL/TM-12440.

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