Prof Malcolm Perry
Professor of Theoretical Physics
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Interests
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.
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics2024
Perry MJ and Rodriguez MJ (2024). CFT duals of Kerr-Taub-NUT and beyond. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2024 (10) 09-10-2024
2023
Perry MJ (2023). Some hidden structure in BKL. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2023 (5) 18-05-2023
Akhoury R, Choi S and Perry MJ (2023). Singular supertranslations and Chern-Simons theory on the black hole horizon. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 107 (8) 15-04-2023
2022
Akhoury R, Choi S and Perry MJ (2022). Holography from Singular Supertranslations on a Black Hole Horizon. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 129 (22) 22-11-2022
Perry MJ (2022). Black hole entropy from soft hair. The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting. 22-06-2022
Perry M and Rodriguez MJ (2022). Central charges for AdS black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing vol. 39 (4) 28-01-2022
2021
Gonzalez E, Kane G, Nguyen KD and Perry MJ (2021). Quark and lepton mass matrices from localization in M-theory on G2 orbifold. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 103 (12) 15-06-2021
2020
Perry MJ (2020). Black hole entropy from soft hair. International Journal of Modern Physics D, World Scientific Publishing vol. 29 (16) 02-11-2020
Godazgar H, Godazgar M and Perry MJ (2020). Asymptotic Gravitational Charges. Physical Review Letters vol. 125 (10) 04-09-2020
Godazgar H, Godazgar M and Perry MJ (2020). Hamiltonian derivation of dual gravitational charges. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2020 (9) 01-09-2020
2019
Carr BJ, Ellis GFR, Gibbons GW, Hartle JB, Hertog T, Penrose R, Perry MJ and Thorne KS (2019). Stephen William Hawking CH CBE. 8 January 194214 March 2018. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, The Royal Society vol. 66, 267-308. 03-04-2019
2018
Haco S, Hawking SW, Perry MJ and Strominger A (2018). Black hole entropy and soft hair. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Science and Business Media LLC vol. 2018 (12) 17-12-2018
Acharya BS, Ellis SAR, Kane GL, Nelson BD and Perry M (2018). Categorisation and detection of dark matter candidates from string/M-theory hidden sectors. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2018 (9) 01-09-2018
2017
Haco SJ, Hawking SW, Perry MJ and Bourjaily JL (2017). The conformal BMS group. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2017 (11) 06-11-2017
Kapec D, Perry M, Raclariu A-M and Strominger A (2017). Infrared divergences in QED revisited. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 96 (8) 10-10-2017
Hawking SW, Perry MJ and Strominger A (2017). Superrotation charge and supertranslation hair on black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2017 (5) 31-05-2017
2016
Acharya BS, Ellis SAR, Kane GL, Nelson BD and Perry MJ (2016). Lightest Visible-Sector Supersymmetric Particle is Likely to be Unstable. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 117 (18) 28-10-2016
Hawking SW, Perry MJ and Strominger A (2016). Soft Hair on Black Holes. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 116 (23) 06-06-2016
2015
Perry MJ (2015). What is an electron? Modern Physics Letters A, World Scientific Publishing vol. 30 (09) 11-03-2015
Kane GL and Perry MJ (2015). What is a quark? International Journal of Modern Physics A, World Scientific Publishing vol. 30 (01) 09-01-2015
2014
Mersini-Houghton L and Perry MJ (2014). Localization on the landscape and eternal inflation. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing vol. 31 (21) 17-10-2014
Berman DS, Cederwall M and Perry MJ (2014). Global aspects of double geometry. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2014 (9) 01-09-2014
Mersini-Houghton L and Perry MJ (2014). The end of eternal inflation. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing vol. 31 (16) 01-08-2014
Berman DS, Blair CDA, Malek E and Perry MJ (2014). The OD, D geometry of string theory. International Journal of Modern Physics A, World Scientific Publishing vol. 29 (15) 30-05-2014
Percacci R, Perry MJ, Pope CN and Sezgin E (2014). Beta functions of topologically massive supergravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2014 (3) 01-03-2014
2013
Godazgar H, Godazgar M and Perry MJ (2013). E8 duality and dual gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2013 (6) 01-06-2013
2012
Berman DS, Godazgar H, Godazgar M and Perry MJ (2012). The local symmetries of M-theory and their formulation in generalised geometry. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer LInk vol. 2012 (1) 01-01-2012
Berman DS, Godazgar H, Perry MJ and West P (2012). Duality invariant actions and generalised geometry. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer LInk vol. 2012 (2) 01-01-2012
2011
Berman DS, Musaev ET and Perry MJ (2011). Boundary terms in generalized geometry and doubled field theory. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics vol. 706 (2-3), 228-231. 06-12-2011
Berman DS, Musaev ET and Perry MJ (2011). Boundary terms in generalized geometry and doubled field theory. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 706 (2-3), 228-231. 01-12-2011
Berman DS and Perry MJ (2011). Generalized geometry and M theory. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS vol. 2011 (6) 01-06-2011
Berman DS, Godazgar H and Perry MJ (2011). SO(5,5) duality in M-theory and generalized geometry. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 700 (1), 65-67. 01-05-2011
Godazgar H and Perry MJ (2011). Real fermionic symmetry in type II supergravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2011 (1) 01-01-2011
2010
Berman DS, Perry MJ, Sezgin E and Thompson DC (2010). Boundary conditions for interacting membranes. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2010 (4) 01-04-2010
Lü H, Perry MJ, Pope CN and Sezgin E (2010). Kac–Moody and Virasoro symmetries of principal chiral sigma models. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 826 (1-2), 71-86. 01-02-2010
Monteiro R, Perry MJ and Santos JE (2010). Semiclassical instabilities of Kerr-anti-de Sitter black holes. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 81 (2) 05-01-2010
Berman DS, Perry MJ, Sezgin E and Thompson DC (2010). Boundary conditions for interacting membranes. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2010 (4) 01-01-2010
2009
Monteiro R, Perry MJ and Santos JE (2009). Thermodynamic instability of rotating black holes. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 80 (2) 15-07-2009
Lü H, Perry MJ and Pope CN (2009). Infinite-dimensional symmetries of two-dimensional coset models. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 806 (3), 656-683. 01-01-2009
2007
Watson S, Perry MJ, Kane GL and Adams FC (2007). Inflation without inflaton(s). Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, IOP Publishing vol. 2007 (11), 017-017. 01-11-2007
2006
Gibbons GW, Perry MJ and Pope CN (2006). Partition functions, the Bekenstein bound and temperature inversion in anti-de Sitter space and its conformal boundary. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 74 (8) 06-10-2006
Berman DS and Perry MJ (2006). M-theory and the string genus expansion. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 635 (2-3), 131-135. 01-04-2006
2005
Gibbons GW, Perry MJ and Pope CN (2005). Anti–de Sitter-Space/Conformal-Field-Theory Casimir Energy for Rotating Black Holes. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 95 (23) 28-11-2005
Gibbons GW, Perry MJ and Pope CN (2005). Bulk-boundary thermodynamic equivalence, and the Bekenstein and cosmic-censorship bounds for rotating charged AdS black holes. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 72 (8) 15-10-2005
Gibbons GW, Perry MJ and Pope CN (2005). The first law of thermodynamics for Kerr–anti-de Sitter black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing vol. 22 (9) 07-05-2005
Kane GL, Perry MJ and Żytkow AN (2005). An approach to the cosmological constant problem(s). Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 609 (1-2), 7-12. 01-03-2005
2003
Kostelecký VA, Lehnert R and Perry MJ (2003). Spacetime-varying couplings and Lorentz violation. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 68 (12) 11-12-2003
2002
Ng S and Perry M (2002). Brane splitting via quantum tunneling. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 634 (1-2), 209-229. 01-07-2002
Kane GL, Perry MJ and Zytkow AN (2002). The beginning of the end of the anthropic principle. New Astronomy, Elsevier vol. 7 (1), 45-53. 01-01-2002
2001
Mbonye M, Adams FC and Perry MJ (2001). From stellar entropy to black hole entropy. AIP Conference Proceedings, AIP Publishing vol. 586 (1), 882-884. 15-10-2001
ADAMS FC, KANE GL, MBONYE M and PERRY MJ (2001). PROTON DECAY, BLACK HOLES, AND LARGE EXTRA DIMENSIONS. International Journal of Modern Physics A, World Scientific Publishing vol. 16 (13), 2399-2410. 20-05-2001
2000
Costa MS and Perry MJ (2000). Interacting black holes. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 591 (1-2), 469-487. 01-12-2000
Kostelecký VA, Perry MJ and Potting R (2000). Off-Shell Structure of the String Sigma Model. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 84 (20), 4541-4544. 15-05-2000
Brecher D and Perry MJ (2000). Ricci-flat branes. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 566 (1-2), 151-172. 01-01-2000
1999
Codirla C and Perry MJ (1999). Compactification of supermembranes. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 561 (1-2), 43-56. 01-11-1999
Chamblin HA, Perry MJ and Reall HS (1999). Non-BPS D8-branes and dynamic domain walls in massive IIA supergravities. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 1999 (09) 13-09-1999
1998
Evans JM, Gaberdiel MR and Perry MJ (1998). The no-ghost theorem for AdS3 and the stringy exclusion principle. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 535 (1-2), 152-170. 01-12-1998
Adams FC, Laughlin G, Mbonye M and Perry MJ (1998). Gravitational demise of cold degenerate stars. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 58 (8) 21-09-1998
Brecher D and Perry MJ (1998). Bound states of D-branes and the non-abelian Born-Infeld action. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 527 (1-2), 121-141. 01-08-1998
Costa MS and Perry MJ (1998). Torons and black hole entropy. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 524 (1-2), 333-357. 01-07-1998
Costa MS and Perry MJ (1998). Landau degeneracy and black hole entropy. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 520 (1-2), 205-228. 01-06-1998
1997
Hewson S and Perry M (1997). The twelve-dimensional super-(2 + 2)-brane. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 492 (1-2), 249-277. 01-05-1997
Costa MS and Perry MJ (1997). Kaluza - Klein electrically charged black branes in M-theory. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing vol. 14 (3) 01-03-1997
Hewson S and Perry M (1997). Exact non-abelian target space duality. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 391 (3-4), 316-323. 01-01-1997
1996
Gibbons GW, Green MB and Perry MJ (1996). Instantons and seven-branes in type IIB superstring theory. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 370 (1-2), 37-44. 01-03-1996
Kostelecký VA and Perry MJ (1996). Solitonic black holes in gauged N = 2 supergravity. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 371 (3-4), 191-198. 01-03-1996
1994
Goldwirth DS and Perry MJ (1994). String-dominated cosmology. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 49 (10), 5019-5025. 15-05-1994
Goldwirth DS, Perry MJ, Piran T and Thorne KS (1994). Quantum propagator for a nonrelativistic particle in the vicinity of a time machine. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 49 (8), 3951-3957. 15-04-1994
BARRETT J, GIBBONS GW, PERRY MJ, POPE CN and RUBACK P (1994). KLEINIAN GEOMETRY AND THE N = 2 SUPERSTRING. International Journal of Modern Physics A, World Scientific Publishing vol. 9 (09), 1457-1493. 10-04-1994
Kostelecký VA and Perry M (1994). No more spacetime singularities? General Relativity and Gravitation, Springer Nature vol. 26 (1), 7-12. 01-03-1994
Kostelecký VA and Perry MJ (1994). Tachyon hair for two-dimensional black holes. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 322 (1-2), 48-58. 01-02-1994
Kostelecký VA and Perry MJ (1994). Condensates and singularities in string theory. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 414 (1-2), 174-190. 01-02-1994
1993
Perry MJ and Teo E (1993). Topological conformal gravity in four dimensions. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 401 (1-2), 206-238. 01-07-1993
Perry MJ and Teo E (1993). Nonsingularity of the exact two-dimensional string black hole. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 70 (18), 2669-2672. 03-05-1993
Gross DJ, Perry MJ and Yaffe LG (1993). Instability of flat space at finite temperature. Euclidean Quantum Gravity 238-263. 01-05-1993
GIBBONS GW and PERRY MJ (1993). Black holes and thermal Green functions. Euclidean Quantum Gravity 205-232. 01-05-1993
GIBBONS GW, HAWKING SW and PERRY MJ (1993). PATH INTEGRALS AND THE INDEFINITENESS OF THE GRAVITATIONAL ACTION. Euclidean Quantum Gravity 102-111. 01-05-1993
Perry MJ and Teo E (1993). BRS and anti-BRS symmetry in topological Yang-Mills theory. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 392 (2), 369-384. 01-03-1993
Goldwirth DS, Perry MJ and Piran T (1993). The breakdown of quantum mechanics in the presence of time machinest. General Relativity and Gravitation, Springer Nature vol. 25 (1), 7-13. 01-01-1993
1992
GIBBONS GW and PERRY MJ (1992). THE PHYSICS OF 2D STRINGY SPACETIMES. International Journal of Modern Physics D, World Scientific Publishing vol. 1 (02), 335-354. 01-01-1992
1991
Linden N and Perry MJ (1991). Path integrals and unitarity in quantum cosmology. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 357 (1), 289-307. 01-06-1991
1986
Kolb EW, Perry MJ and Walker TP (1986). Time variation of fundamental constants, primordial nucleosynthesis, and the size of extra dimensions. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 33 (4), 869-871. 15-02-1986
1984
Gibbons GW and Perry MJ (1984). Soliton supermultiplets and Kaluza-Klein theory. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 248 (3), 629-646. 01-12-1984
Harvey JA, Kolb EW and Perry MJ (1984). Cosmological production of Kaluza-Klein monopoles. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 149 (6), 465-469. 01-12-1984
Strominger A, Horowitz GT and Perry MJ (1984). Instantons in conformal gravity. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 238 (3), 653-664. 01-06-1984
Perry MJ (1984). Non-abelian Kaluza-Klein monopoles. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 137 (3-4), 171-174. 01-03-1984
1983
Gross DJ and Perry MJ (1983). Magnetic monopoles in Kaluza-Klein theories. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 226 (1), 29-48. 01-09-1983
Gibbons GW, Hawking SW, Horowitz GT and Perry MJ (1983). Positive mass theorems for black holes. Communications in Mathematical Physics, Springer Nature vol. 88 (3), 295-308. 01-09-1983
Ginsparg P and Perry MJ (1983). Semiclassical perdurance of de Sitter space. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 222 (2), 245-268. 01-08-1983
Horowitz GT and Perry MJ (1983). Black holes and the stability of gravitation. General Relativity and Gravitation, Springer Nature vol. 15 (1), 1-5. 01-01-1983
1982
Horowitz GT and Perry MJ (1982). Gravitational Energy Cannot Become Negative. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 48 (6), 371-374. 08-02-1982
Gross DJ, Perry MJ and Yaffe LG (1982). Instability of flat space at finite temperature. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 25 (2), 330-355. 15-01-1982
1981
Lapedes AS and Perry MJ (1981). Type-D gravitational instantons. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 24 (6), 1478-1483. 15-09-1981
Hasslacher B and Perry MJ (1981). Spin networks are simplicial quantum gravity. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 103 (1), 21-24. 01-07-1981
1980
Gibbons GW and Perry MJ (1980). New gravitational instantons and their interactions. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 22 (2), 313-321. 15-07-1980
1978
Gibbons GW and Perry MJ (1978). Quantizing gravitational instantons. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 146 (1), 90-108. 01-12-1978
Perry MJ (1978). Anomalies in supergravity. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 143 (1), 114-124. 01-10-1978
Gibbons GW, Hawking SW and Perry MJ (1978). Path integrals and the indefiniteness of the gravitational action. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 138 (1), 141-150. 01-06-1978
Gibbons GW and Perry MJ (1978). Black holes and thermal Green functions. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, The Royal Society vol. 358 (1695), 467-494. 16-01-1978
1976
Gibbons GW and Perry MJ (1976). Black Holes in Thermal Equilibrium. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 36 (16), 985-987. 19-04-1976
1975
Collins JC and Perry MJ (1975). Superdense Matter: Neutrons or Asymptotically Free Quarks? Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 34 (21), 1353-1356. 26-05-1975
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental PhysicsAmplitudes, Strings and Duality (CG 2022)Andreas Brandhuber, David Berman, Matthew Buican, Rodolfo Russo, David Vegh, Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Gabriele Travaglini, Christopher White, Bill Spence, Congkao Wen, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Ricardo Monteiro and Malcolm Perry
£1,477,966 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC) (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2026)
Amplitudes, Strings and DualityAndreas Brandhuber, Bill Spence, Rodolfo Russo, Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Matthew Buican, Michael Green, Steven Thomas, Steven Thomas, Gabriele Travaglini, Congkao Wen, Constantinos Papageorgakis, David Berman, Christopher White, David Vegh, Ricardo Monteiro and Malcolm Perry
£890,210 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC) (01-10-2020 - 31-03-2024)