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Malcolm J. Duncan
Researcher at CERN
Publications - 5
Citations - 228
Malcolm J. Duncan is an academic researcher from CERN. The author has contributed to research in topics: Big Rip & Gravitation. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 191 citations.
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Gravitational dynamics with Lorentz Chern-Simons terms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider corrections to Einstein gravity arising from the inclusion of Lorentz Chern-Simons terms, as well as Gauss-Bonnet terms, in a theory containing dilatons and Kalb-Ramond axions.
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Four Forms and the Vanishing of the Cosmological Constant
Malcolm J. Duncan,L. Jensen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Baum-Hawking-Coleman mechanism was used to study the dynamics and statics of a four-form and showed that the dynamics are more subtle than previously appreciated.
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The quantum cosmology of an anisotropic universe
Malcolm J. Duncan,L. Jensen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed the quantum cosmology of an anistropic universe according to the "no-boundary" prescription of Hartle and Hawking, and showed it also implies that a large universe such as ours, is isotropic.
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Is the universe euclidean
Malcolm J. Duncan,L. Jensen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a lorentzian approach to the quantum behaviour of gravity is healthier than a euclidean approach, and they show how it is possible to obtain a convergent kernel describing the quantum evolution of the universe from a path integral.
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Topological stability in higher dimensional theories
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of background gauge topology is found to play a key role in determining whether a manifold is stable or not, and some elementary criteria for a qualitative discussion of this problem, and illustrate their use with a simple model.