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Matt Visser

Researcher at Victoria University of Wellington

Publications -  594
Citations -  28882

Matt Visser is an academic researcher from Victoria University of Wellington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Spacetime & General relativity. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 574 publications receiving 24896 citations. Previous affiliations of Matt Visser include Victoria University, Australia & University of Portsmouth.

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Charged black-bounce spacetimes

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the black-bounce-Reissner-Nordstrøm and black-Bounce-Kerr-Newman spacetimes as simple and clean everywhere-regular black hole "mimickers" that deviate from the Kerr-newman family in a precisely controlled and minimal manner and smoothly interpolate between regular black holes and traversable wormholes.
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Unexpectedly large surface gravities for acoustic horizons

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that in zero-viscosity, stationary fluid flow with generic boundary conditions, the creation of an acoustic horizon is accompanied by a formally infinite ''surface gravity'' and formally infinite "Hawking flux", and that these quantities can be kept finite only by applying a suitable nonconstant external body force, and for very specific boundary conditions on the flow.
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Opening the Pandora's box at the core of black holes.

TL;DR: In this article, a geometric classification of all spherically symmetric spacetimes that could result from singularity regularization is presented, using a kinematic construction that is both exhaustive and oblivious to the dynamics of the fields involved.
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Elementary analysis of the special relativistic combination of velocities, Wigner rotation and Thomas precession

TL;DR: The authors provided an elementary introduction to the qualitative and quantitative results of velocity combination in special relativity, including the Wigner rotation and Thomas precession, in arguments presented at three differing levels: (1) utterly elementary, which will suit a first course in relativity; (2) intermediate, to suit a second course; and (3) advanced, to fit higher level students.
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Power-counting renormalizability of generalized Horava gravity

TL;DR: In this paper, the power-counting renormalizability of a z>=d variant of Horava gravity in (d+1) dimensions has been discussed and the implications for Horava's model of quantum gravity.