Professor Malcolm Perry

Profile

Professor Perry is a British theoretical physicist and a Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge. He was professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge prior to joining Queen Mary. Malcolm attended King Edward’s School in Birmingham before reading physics at St John’s College in Oxford and was a graduate student at King’s College in Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Stephen Hawking.  

He obtained his doctorate at the University of Cambridge with a thesis on the quantum mechanics of black holes. During his fellowship, he has made a major contribution to Euclidean quantum gravity and black hole radiation with Gary Gibbons and Stephen Hawking as applied through Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Malcolm’s aim is to advance our understanding of black hole physics and further our knowledge of the low-energy, or infrared, regime of quantum electrodynamics, gauge theories, and gravitation.

Professor Perry has won awards from the Gravity Research Foundation and holds a Sloan Research Fellowship. His most recent work with Stephen Hawking and Andrew Strominger is the most significant step to solving the long standing information paradox for black holes and also to horizons in cosmological models. With Perimeter Institute Faculty member Robert Myers, he developed the Myers-Perry metric, which shows how to construct black holes in the higher space-time dimensions associated with string theory. He is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Relativity and Gravitation research group.

Research

Publications

My list of publications:

Complete list of publications on inspirehep.net

• Perry MJ (2023). Some hidden structure in BKL. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2023)161

  
  

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• Akhoury R, Choi S, Perry MJ (2023). Singular supertranslations and Chern-Simons theory on the black hole horizon. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.085019

  
  

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• Akhoury R, Choi S, Perry MJ (2022). Holography from Singular Supertranslations on a Black Hole Horizon. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.221603

  
  

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• Perry MJ (2022). Black hole entropy from soft hair. The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/9789811258251_0004

  
  

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• Perry M, Rodriguez MJ (2022). Central charges for AdS black holes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/ac45d8

  
  

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• Gonzalez E, Kane G, Nguyen KD et al. (2021). Quark and lepton mass matrices from localization in M-theory on G2 orbifold. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.126027

  
  

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• Perry MJ (2020). Black hole entropy from soft hair. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/s0218271820300128

  
  

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• Godazgar H, Godazgar M, Perry MJ (2020). Asymptotic Gravitational Charges. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.101301

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/67708
• Godazgar H, Godazgar M, Perry MJ (2020). Hamiltonian derivation of dual gravitational charges. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2020)084

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/67709
• Carr BJ, Ellis GFR, Gibbons GW et al. (2019). Stephen William Hawking CH CBE. 8 January 194214 March 2018. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2019.0001

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/71118
• Haco S, Hawking SW, Perry MJ et al. (2019). Black hole entropy and soft hair. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/jhep12(2018)098

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61139
• Acharya BS, Ellis SAR, Kane GL et al. (2018). Categorisation and detection of dark matter candidates from string/M-theory hidden sectors. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/jhep09(2018)130

  
  

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• GIBBONS GW, PERRY MJ (1993). Black holes and thermal Green functions. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/9789814539395_0013

  
  

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• Gross DJ, Perry MJ, Yaffe LG (1993). Instability of flat space at finite temperature. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/9789814539395_0015

  
  

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• GIBBONS GW, HAWKING SW, PERRY MJ (1993). PATH INTEGRALS AND THE INDEFINITENESS OF THE GRAVITATIONAL ACTION. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/9789814539395_0004

  
  

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• Haco SJ, Hawking SW, Perry MJ et al. (2017). The conformal BMS group. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/jhep11(2017)012

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61861
• Kapec D, Perry M, Raclariu A-M et al. (2017). Infrared divergences in QED revisited. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.96.085002

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61140
• Hawking SW, Perry MJ, Strominger A (2019). Superrotation charge and supertranslation hair on black holes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/jhep05(2017)161

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61142
• Acharya BS, Ellis SAR, Kane GL et al. (2016). Lightest Visible-Sector Supersymmetric Particle is Likely to be Unstable.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.181802

  
  

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• Hawking SW, Perry MJ, Strominger A (2016). Soft Hair on Black Holes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.231301

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61144
• Perry MJ (2015). What is an electron?. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/s0217732315300074

  
  

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• Kane GL, Perry MJ (2015). What is a Quark?. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/9789814618113_0009

  
  

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• Kane GL, Perry MJ (2015). What is a quark?. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/s0217751x15300069

  
  

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• Perry MJ (2015). What is an Electron?. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/9789814602686_0001

  
  

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• Mersini-Houghton L, Perry MJ (2014). Localization on the landscape and eternal inflation. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/31/21/215008

  
  

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• Mersini-Houghton L, Perry MJ (2014). The end of eternal inflation. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/31/16/165005

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Berman DS, Blair CDA, Malek E et al. (2014). The OD, D geometry of string theory. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X14500808

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/13256
• Percacci R, Perry MJ, Pope CN et al. (2014). Beta functions of topologically massive supergravity. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/jhep03(2014)083

  
  

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• Berman DS, Cederwall M, Perry MJ (2014). Global aspects of double geometry. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2014)066

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/13002
• Godazgar H, Godazgar M, Perry MJ (2013). E 8 duality and dual gravity. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2013)044

  
  

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• BARRETT J, GIBBONS GW, PERRY MJ et al. (1994). KLEINIAN GEOMETRY AND THE N = 2 SUPERSTRING. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/s0217751x94000650

  
  

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• ADAMS FC, KANE GL, MBONYE M et al. (2001). PROTON DECAY, BLACK HOLES, AND LARGE EXTRA DIMENSIONS. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1142/s0217751x0100369x

  
  

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• Berman DS, Godazgar H, Perry MJ et al. (2012). Duality invariant actions and generalised geometry. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)108

  
  

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• Berman DS, Godazgar H, Godazgar M et al. (2012). The local symmetries of M-theory and their formulation in generalised geometry. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)012

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Berman DS, Musaev ET, Perry MJ (2011). Boundary terms in generalized geometry and doubled field theory. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.019

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Berman DS, Perry MJ (2011). Generalized geometry and M theory. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)074

  
  

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• Berman DS, Godazgar H, Perry MJ (2011). SO(5,5) duality in M-theory and generalized geometry. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.04.046

  
  

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• Godazgar H, Perry MJ (2011). Real fermionic symmetry in type II supergravity. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/jhep01(2011)032

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Berman DS, Musaev ET, Perry MJ (2011). Boundary terms in generalized geometry and doubled field theory. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.019

  
  

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• Berman DS, Perry MJ, Sezgin E et al. (2010). Boundary conditions for interacting membranes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/jhep04(2010)025

  
  

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• Lü H, Perry MJ, Pope CN et al. (2010). Kac–Moody and Virasoro symmetries of principal chiral sigma models. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.09.030

  
  

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• Monteiro R, Perry MJ, Santos JE (2010). Semiclassical instabilities of Kerr-anti-de Sitter black holes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.81.024001

  
  

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• Berman DS, Perry MJ, Sezgin E et al. (2010). Boundary conditions for interacting membranes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2010)025

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Monteiro R, Perry MJ, Santos JE (2009). Thermodynamic instability of rotating black holes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.80.024041

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Lü H, Perry MJ, Pope CN (2009). Infinite-dimensional symmetries of two-dimensional coset models. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.07.035

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Watson S, Perry MJ, Kane GL et al. (2007). Inflation without inflaton(s). nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/11/017

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gibbons GW, Perry MJ, Pope CN (2006). Partition functions, the Bekenstein bound and temperature inversion in anti-de Sitter space and its conformal boundary. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.74.084009

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Berman DS, Perry MJ (2006). M-theory and the string genus expansion. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.02.038

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gibbons GW, Perry MJ, Pope CN (2005). Anti-de Sitter-space/conformal-field-theory Casimir energy for rotating black holes.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.231601

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gibbons GW, Perry MJ, Pope CN (2005). Bulk-boundary thermodynamic equivalence, and the Bekenstein and cosmic-censorship bounds for rotating charged AdS black holes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.72.084028

  
  

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• Gibbons GW, Perry MJ, Pope CN (2005). The first law of thermodynamics for Kerr–anti-de Sitter black holes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/22/9/002

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Kane GL, Perry MJ, Żytkow AN (2005). An approach to the cosmological constant problem(s). nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2004.12.078

  
  

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• Kostelecký VA, Lehnert R, Perry MJ (2003). Spacetime-varying couplings and Lorentz violation. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.68.123511

  
  

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• Ng S, Perry M (2002). Brane splitting via quantum tunneling. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(02)00346-2

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Kane GL, Perry MJ, Zytkow AN (2002). The beginning of the end of the anthropic principle. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s1384-1076(01)00088-4

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Mbonye M, Adams FC, Perry MJ (2001). From stellar entropy to black hole entropy. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1063/1.1419678

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Costa MS, Perry MJ (2000). Interacting black holes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(00)00577-0

  
  

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• Alan Kostelecky V, Perry MJ, Potting R (2000). Off-shell structure of the string sigma model.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4541

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Brecher D, Perry MJ (2000). Ricci-flat branes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(99)00659-8

  
  

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• Codirla C, Perry MJ (1999). Compactification of supermembranes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(99)00499-x

  
  

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• Chamblin HA, Perry MJ, Reall HS (publicationYear). Non-BPS D8-branes and dynamic domain walls in massive IIA supergravities. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/09/014

  
  

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• Costa MS, Perry MJ (1997). Kaluza - Klein electrically charged black branes in M-theory. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/14/3/007

  
  

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• Evans JM, Gaberdiel MR, Perry MJ (1998). The no-ghost theorem for AdS3 and the stringy exclusion principle. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00561-6

  
  

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• Adams FC, Laughlin G, Mbonye M et al. (1998). Gravitational demise of cold degenerate stars. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.58.083003

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Brecher D, Perry MJ (1998). Bound states of D-branes and the non-abelian Born-Infeld action. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00297-1

  
  

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• Costa MS, Perry MJ (1998). Torons and black hole entropy. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00193-x

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Costa MS, Perry MJ (1998). Landau degeneracy and black hole entropy. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00051-0

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Hewson S, Perry M (1997). The twelve-dimensional super-(2 + 2)-brane. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(97)80035-1

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gibbons GW, Perry MJ (1978). Black holes and thermal Green functions. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1978.0022

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Hewson S, Perry M (1997). Exact non-abelian target space duality. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/s0370-2693(96)01505-5

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gibbons GW, Green MB, Perry MJ (1996). Instantons and seven-branes in type IIB superstring theory. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)01565-5

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Kostelecký VA, Perry MJ (1996). Solitonic black holes in gauged N = 2 supergravity. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)01607-4

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Goldwirth DS, Perry MJ (1994). String-dominated cosmology.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.49.5019

  
  

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• Goldwirth DS, Perry MJ, Piran T et al. (1994). Quantum propagator for a nonrelativistic particle in the vicinity of a time machine.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.49.3951

  
  

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• Kostelecký VA, Perry M (1994). No more spacetime singularities?. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/bf02088204

  
  

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• Kostelecký VA, Perry MJ (1994). Condensates and singularities in string theory. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(94)90427-8

  
  

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• Kostelecký VA, Perry MJ (1994). Tachyon hair for two-dimensional black holes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(94)90490-1

  
  

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• Perry MJ, Teo E (1993). Topological conformal gravity in four dimensions. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(93)90303-7

  
  

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• Perry MJ, Teo E (1993). Nonsingularity of the exact two-dimensional string black hole.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2669

  
  

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• Perry MJ, Teo E (1993). BRS and anti-BRS symmetry in topological Yang-Mills theory. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(93)90677-h

  
  

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• Goldwirth DS, Perry MJ, Piran T (1993). The breakdown of quantum mechanics in the presence of time machinest. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/bf00756924

  
  

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• Linden N, Perry MJ (1991). Path integrals and unitarity in quantum cosmology. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(91)90470-i

  
  

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• Kolb EW, Perry MJ, Walker TP (1986). Time variation of fundamental constants, primordial nucleosynthesis, and the size of extra dimensions.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.33.869

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Harvey JA, Kolb EW, Perry MJ (1984). Cosmological production of Kaluza-Klein monopoles. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(84)90367-8

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gibbons GW, Perry MJ (1984). Soliton supermultiplets and Kaluza-Klein theory. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(84)90615-1

  
  

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• Strominger A, Horowitz GT, Perry MJ (1984). Instantons in conformal gravity. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(84)90340-7

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Perry MJ (1984). Non-abelian Kaluza-Klein monopoles. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(84)90224-7

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Perry MJ (1984). Kaluza-Klein Theories and the Dirac Monopole. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-0375-7_4

  
  

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• Gross DJ, Perry MJ (1983). Magnetic monopoles in Kaluza-Klein theories. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(83)90462-5

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gibbons GW, Hawking SW, Horowitz GT et al. (1983). Positive mass theorems for black holes. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/bf01213209

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Ginsparg P, Perry MJ (1983). Semiclassical perdurance of de Sitter space. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(83)90636-3

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Horowitz GT, Perry MJ (1983). Black holes and the stability of gravitation. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/bf00755890

  
  

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• Horowitz GT, Perry MJ (1982). Gravitational Energy Cannot Become Negative. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.48.371

  
  

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• Gross DJ, Perry MJ, Yaffe LG (1982). Instability of flat space at finite temperature. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.25.330

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Lapedes AS, Perry MJ (1981). Type-D gravitational instantons. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.24.1478

  
  

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• Hasslacher B, Perry MJ (1981). Spin networks are simplicial quantum gravity. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(81)90185-4

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gibbons GW, Perry MJ (1980). New gravitational instantons and their interactions. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.22.313

  
  

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• Gibbons GW, Perry MJ (1978). Quantizing gravitational instantons. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(78)90434-0

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Perry MJ (1978). Anomalies in supergravity. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(78)90450-9

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gibbons GW, Hawking SW, Perry MJ (1978). Path integrals and the indefiniteness of the gravitational action. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(78)90161-x

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gibbons GW, Perry MJ (1976). Black Holes in Thermal Equilibrium. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.36.985

  
  

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• Collins JC, Perry MJ (1975). Superdense Matter: Neutrons or Asymptotically Free Quarks?. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.34.1353

  
  

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