Recent Scientific Papers

Eric Woolgar

Selected post-1993 Publications:

• The Ricci flow of asymptotically hyperbolic mass and applications, T Balehowsky and E Woolgar [arxiv:1110.0765].
• The Ricci flow of the 'RP^3$ geon' and noncompact manifolds with essential minimal spheres, T Balehowsky and E Woolgar [arxiv:1004.1833].
• On long-time existence for the flow of static metrics with rotational symmetry, L Gulcev, TA Oliynyk, and E Woolgar, Commun Anal Geom, 18 (2010) 705 [arxiv:0911.2037].
• Ricci Solitons and Einstein-Scalar Field Theory, MM Akbar and E Woolgar, Class Quantum Gravit 26 (2009) 055015 [arxiv:0808.3126].
• Some Applications of Ricci Flow in Physics, E Woolgar, Proc Theory Canada III workshop, Can J Phys 86 (2008) 645 [arxiv:0708.2144].
• A Metric for Gradient RG Flow of the Worldsheet Sigma Model Beyond First Order, T Oliynyk, V Suneeta, and E Woolgar Phys Rev D76:045001 (2007) [arxiv:0705.0827 ].
• Asymptotically Flat Ricci Flows, T Oliynyk, E Woolgar, Commun Anal Geom 15 (2007) 535; long version available as [math/0607438].
• A Gradient Flow for Worldsheet Nonlinear Sigma Models, T Oliynyk, V Suneeta, E Woolgar , Nucl Phys B, 739 (2006) 441 [hep-th/0510239].
• Irreversibility of World-Sheet Renormalization Group Flows, T Oliynyk, V Suneeta, E Woolgar, Phys Lett B21739 [hep-th/0410001].
• On the Geometry and Mass of Static, Asymptotically AdS Spacetimes, and the Uniqueness of the AdS Soliton, GJ Galloway, S Surya, and E Woolgar, Commun Math Phys, 241 (2003) 1 [hep-th/0204081].
• Non-Existence of Black Holes in Certain Lambda<0 Spacetimes, GJ Galloway, S Surya, and E Woolgar, Class Quantum Gravit 20 (2003) 1635 [gr-qc/0212079].
• Positive Mass from Holographic Causality, DN Page, S Surya, and E Woolgar, Phys Rev Lett 89 (2002) 121301 [hep-th/0204198].
• A Uniqueness Theorem for the Anti-de Sitter Soliton, GJ Galloway, S Surya, and E Woolgar, Phys Rev Lett 88 (2002) 101102, [hep-th/0108170].
• New Five Dimensional Black Holes Classified by Horizon Geometry, and a Bianchi VI Braneworld, C Cadeau and E Woolgar, Class. Quantum Gravit. 18 (2001), 527. [gr-qc/0011029].
• AdS/CFT Correspondence and Topological Censorship, GJ Galloway, K Schleich, DM Witt, and E Woolgar, Phys Lett B505 (2001), 255. in PDF. Expanded version: hep-th/9912119.
• Topological Censorship and Higher Genus Horizons, GJ Galloway, K Schleich, DM Witt, and E Woolgar, Phys Rev D 60 (1999), 104039; [gr-qc/9902061].
  
• Bounded Area Theorems for Higher Genus Black Holes, E Woolgar (1999), Class Quantum Gravit 16 (1999), 3005 [gr-qc/9906096].
  
• Causal Structure of Kink Spacetimes, E Woolgar, talk presented at Ken Dunn Memorial Session, Seventh Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics, June 1997. Acrobat PDF(with embedded fonts), LaTeX. (10 pages).
  
• The Cosmic Censor Forbids Naked Topology, GJ Galloway and E Woolgar, Class Quantum Gravit 14 (1997) L1 [gr-qc/9609007].
  
• Fastest Curves and Toroidal Black Holes, E Woolgar, Banach Center Pub 41(1997), 233. Acrobat PDF (with embedded fonts), TeX. (10 pages).
  
• A Causal Order for Spacetimes with C^0 Lorentzian Metrics: Proof of Compactness of the Space of Causal Curves, RD Sorkin and E Woolgar, Class Quantum Gravit 13 (1996), 1971 [gr-qc/9508018].
  
• Causal Precedence Formalism, E Woolgar (1997), Fields Inst Commun 15, 367.
  Acrobat PDF, TeX. (5 pages).
  
• The Positivity of Energy for Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes, E Woolgar, Class Quantum Gravit 11 (1994), 1881 [gr-qc/9404019].
  
• A Positive Mass Theorem Based on Focusing and Retardation of Null Geodesics, R Penrose, RD Sorkin, and E Woolgar (1993), preprint [gr-qc/9301015].