Staff profile

Professor Ruth Gregory

(email at r.a.w.gregory@durham.ac.uk)

Research Groups

• Mathematical Physics

Research Interests

• General relativity and cosmology

Publications

Journal papers: academic

• Creek, Simon, Gregory, Ruth, Kanti, Panagiota & Mistry, Bina 2006. Braneworld stars and black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(23): 6633-6657. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Charmousis, C., Gregory, R., Kaloper, N. & Padilla, A. 2006. DGP specteroscopy. Journal of High Energy Physics 10: 066. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Charmousis, Christos & Gregory, Ruth 2004. Axisymmetric metrics in arbitrary dimensions. Classical and Quantum Gravity 21: 527-553. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Bostock, P. Gregory, R. , Navarro, I. & Santiago, J. 2004. Einstein gravity on the codimension 2 brane? Physical Review Letters 92(22): 221601. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth, Whisker, Richard, Beckwith, Kris and Done, & Chris 2004. Observing braneworld black holes. Journal of Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics 10: 13-. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth 2003. Inflating p-branes. Journal of High Energy Physics 6: 41-. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth & Santos, Caroline 2003. Spacetime structure of the global vortex. Classical and Quantum Gravity 20: 21-35. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, R. & Harvey, J. A. 2003. Spacetime decay of cones at strong coupling. Classical and Quantum Gravity 20(19): L231-L237. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth & Padilla, Antonio 2002. Braneworld instantons. Classical and Quantum Gravity 19: 279-302. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth 2002. Macroscopic open strings and gravitational confinement. Physics Letters B 547: 55-62. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, R. & Padilla, A. 2002. Nested braneworlds and strong brane gravity. Physical Review D 65(8): 084013. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Emparan, Roberto, Gregory, Ruth and Santos, Caroline 2001. Black holes on thick branes. Physical Review D 63: 104022-. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Charmousis, C., Emparan, R. & Gregory, R. 2001. Self-gravity of brane worlds: a new hierarchy twist. Journal of High Energy Physics 5: 026. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth, Rubakov, Valery A. and Sibiryakov, Sergei & M. 2000. Brane worlds: the gravity of escaping matter. Classical and Quantum Gravity 17: 4437-4449. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Bonjour, Filipe, Charmousis, Christos and Gregory, Ruth 2000. Dynamics of curved gravitating walls. Physical Review D 62: 083504-. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Bowcock, Peter, Charmousis, Christos and Gregory, Ruth 2000. General brane cosmologies and their global spacetime structure. Classical and Quantum Gravity 17: 4745-4763. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, R., Rubakov, V. A. and Sibiryakov, S. M. 2000. Gravity and antigravity in a brane world with metastable gravitons. Physics Letters B 489: 203-206. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth 2000. LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Black string instabilities in anti-de Sitter space. Classical and Quantum Gravity 17: L125-L131. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth 2000. Nonsingular Global String Compactifications. Physical Review Letters 84: 2564-2567. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth, Rubakov, Valery A. and Sibiryakov, Sergei & M. 2000. Opening up Extra Dimensions at Ultralarge Scales. Physical Review Letters 84: 5928-5931. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Santos, Caroline & Gregory, Ruth 2000. Vortices and black holes in dilatonic gravity. Physical Review D 61: 024006-. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Charmousis, Christos, Gregory, Ruth and Rubakov, Valery & A. 2000. Wave function of the radion in a brane world. Physical Review D 62: 067505-. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Bonjour, Filipe, Charmousis, Christos and Gregory, Ruth 1999. Thick domain wall universes. Classical and Quantum Gravity 16: 2427-2445. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Bonjour, Filipe, Emparan, Roberto and Gregory, Ruth 1999. Vortices and extreme black holes: The question of flux expulsion. Physical Review D 59: 084022-. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Bonjour, Filipe & Gregory, Ruth 1998. Comment on ``Absence of Abelian Higgs Hair for Extreme Black Holes''. Physical Review Letters 81: 5034-. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dando, Owen & Gregory, Ruth 1998. Dilatonic global strings. Physical Review D 58: 023502-. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dando, Owen & Gregory, Ruth 1998. Global monopoles in dilaton gravity. Classical and Quantum Gravity 15: 985-995. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth & Santos, Caroline 1997. Cosmic strings in dilaton gravity. Physical Review D 56: 1194-1203. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Santos, Caroline & Gregory, Ruth 1997. Cosmology in Brans-Dicke Theory with a Scalar Potential. Annals of Physics 258: 111-134. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Anderson, Malcolm, Bonjour, Filipe, Gregory, Ruth and & Stewart, John 1997. Effective action and motion of a cosmic string. Physical Review D 56: 8014-8028. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Achúcarro, Ana & Gregory, Ruth 1997. Selection Rules for Splitting Strings. Physical Review Letters 79: 1972-1975. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth 1996. Cosmic p-branes. Nuclear Physics B 467: 159-182. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth 1996. Nonsingular global strings. Physical Review D 54: 4955-4962. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Achúcarro, Ana, Gregory, Ruth and Kuijken, Konrad 1995. Abelian Higgs hair for black holes. Physical Review D 52: 5729-5742. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Carter, Brandon & Gregory, Ruth 1995. Curvature corrections to dynamics of domain walls. Physical Review D 51: 5839-5846. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth & Laflamme, Raymond 1995. Evidence for the stability of extremal black p-branes. Physical Review D 51: 305-. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth & Hindmarsh, Mark 1995. Smooth metrics for snapping strings. Physical Review D 52: 5598-5604. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Achúcarro, Ana, Gregory, Ruth, Harvey, Jeffrey A. and & Kuijken, Konrad 1994. Role of W condensation in electroweak string stability. Physical Review Letters 72: 3646-3649. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth & Laflamme, Raymond 1994. The instability of charged black strings and p-branes. Nuclear Physics B 428: 399-434. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth & Harvey, Jeffrey A. 1993. Black holes with a massive dilaton. Physical Review D 47: 2411-2422. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth & Laflamme, Raymond 1993. Black strings and p-branes are unstable. Physical Review Letters 70: 2837-2840. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dowker, Fay, Gregory, Ruth and Traschen, Jennie 1992. Euclidean black-hole vortices. Physical Review D 45: 2762-2771. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth & Harvey, Jeffrey A. 1992. Quantum fermion hair. Physical Review D 46: 3302-3308. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth 1991. Effective actions for bosonic topological defects. Physical Review D 43: 520-525. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dowker, Fay, Gregory, Ruth and Traschen, Jennie 1991. Euclidean black hole vortices. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N 92: 26436-. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Bowcock, Peter & Gregory, Ruth 1991. Multidimensional tunneling and complex momentum. Physical Review D 44: 1774-1785. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Brightwell, Graham & Gregory, Ruth 1991. Structure of random discrete spacetime. Physical Review Letters 66: 260-263. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Garfinkle, David & Gregory, Ruth 1990. Corrections to the thin-wall approximation in general relativity. Physical Review D 41: 1889-1894. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth, Haws, David and Garfinkle, David 1990. Dynamics of domain walls and strings. Physical Review D 42: 343-348. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth, Davis, Anne-Christine and Brandenberger, & Robert 1989. Cosmic string catalysis of skyrmion decay. Nuclear Physics B 323: 187-208. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth 1989. Cosmological cosmic strings. Physical Review D 39: 2108-2114. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, R. 1988. Effective action for a cosmic string. Physics Letters B 206: 199-204. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, Ruth 1988. Global string singularities. Physics Letters B 215: 663-668. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, R. & Laflamme, R. 1988. Hypercylindrical black holes. Physical Review D 37: 305-308. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Gregory, R. 1987. Gravitational stability of local strings. Physical Review Letters 59: 740-743. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Chamorro, A., Gregory, R. & Stewart, J.M. 1987. Static axisymmetric discs and gravitational collapse. Royal Society of London Proceedings Series A 413: 251-262. (Additional information) (View publication online)

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• Mr Julian Le Witt
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