Alexander Vilenkin
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American physicist
Why Is Alexander Vilenkin Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander Vilenkin is the Leonard Jane Holmes Bernstein Professor of Evolutionary Science and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 260 publications.
Alexander Vilenkin's Published Works
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Published Papers
- Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects (1995) (3349)
- Cosmic Strings and Domain Walls (1985) (1134)
- Gravitational Field of Vacuum Domain Walls and Strings (1981) (760)
- Birth of inflationary universes (1983) (757)
- Creation of Universes from Nothing (1982) (597)
- Quantum Creation of Universes (1984) (428)
- Gravitational Effects upon Cosmological Phase Transitions (1982) (383)
- Quintessential inflation (1998) (367)
- Inflationary spacetimes are incomplete in past directions. (2003) (357)
- Gravitational radiation from cosmic (super)strings: Bursts, stochastic background, and observational windows (2004) (347)
- Equilibrium parity-violating current in a magnetic field (1980) (343)
- Cosmological Density Fluctuations Produced by Vacuum Strings (1981) (296)
- Inflationary spacetimes are not past-complete (2001) (295)
- Gravitational wave bursts from cusps and kinks on cosmic strings (2001) (264)
- Cosmic strings and domain walls in models with Goldstone and pseudo Goldstone bosons (1982) (263)
- Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays without Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff (1997) (260)
- Gravitational field of vacuum domain walls (1983) (254)
- Formation and Evolution of Cosmic Strings (1984) (234)
- Formation and evolution of cosmic D strings (2003) (231)
- Probabilities in the inflationary multiverse (2005) (181)
- On likely values of the cosmological constant (1999) (178)
- MACROSCOPIC PARITY VIOLATING EFFECTS: NEUTRINO FLUXES FROM ROTATING BLACK HOLES AND IN ROTATING THERMAL RADIATION (1979) (169)
- Scaling of cosmic string loops (2005) (147)
- Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (2006) (139)
- Cosmic strings as gravitational lenses (1984) (136)
- Quantum fluctuations in the new inflationary universe (1983) (132)
- Boltzmann brains and the scale-factor cutoff measure of the multiverse (2008) (126)
- Quantum field theory at finite temperature in a rotating system (1980) (121)
- Cosmic necklaces and ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (1997) (114)
- Inflation with SU(5) (1984) (105)
- Predicting the cosmological constant with the scale-factor cutoff measure (2008) (104)
- Solutions to the cosmological constant problems (2000) (103)
- Gamma-ray bursts from superconducting cosmic strings (2001) (98)
- Chiral Effects and Cosmic Magnetic Fields (2012) (97)
- Holographic Multiverse (2008) (94)
- A measure of the multiverse (2006) (93)
- Black holes and the multiverse (2015) (93)
- Many Worlds in One (2001) (92)
- Cosmological constant and the time of its dominance (1999) (92)
- A gravitational analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm effect (1981) (91)
- Signatures of topological defects (1998) (91)
- Schwinger effect in de Sitter space (2014) (90)
- Quantum radiation by moving mirrors (1982) (90)
- String-dominated universe (1984) (89)
- Primordial black hole and wormhole formation by domain walls (2016) (87)
- Probabilities in the Bousso–Polchinski multiverse (2006) (86)
- Gravity of higher dimensional global defects (2000) (83)
- Singularities in inflationary cosmology: A Review (1996) (82)
- Violation of the weak energy condition in inflating spacetimes (1997) (81)
- Primordial black hole formation by vacuum bubbles (2017) (79)
- Noninteracting dark matter (1999) (74)
- The fractal dimension of the inflationary universe (1987) (73)
- Testable anthropic predictions for dark energy (2002) (72)
- Cosmic attractors and gauge hierarchy (2003) (71)
- Prediction and explanation in the multiverse (2007) (70)
- Cosmic strings and galaxy formation (1984) (69)
- Predictability crisis in inflationary cosmology and its resolution (1999) (69)
- Prescription for probabilities in eternal inflation (2001) (65)
- Unambiguous probabilities in an eternally inflating universe (1998) (65)
- Anthropic Prediction for Λ and the Q Catastrophe (2005) (65)
- Cosmic Strings and the String Dilaton (1996) (63)
- Parity nonconservation and neutrino transport in magnetic fields (1995) (61)
- Freak observers and the measure of the multiverse (2006) (60)
- Quantum tunneling in flux compactifications (2009) (60)
- Effective noise in stochastic description of inflation (1999) (59)
- Wave function discord (1998) (58)
- Solitonic D-branes and brane annihilation (2002) (57)
- Quantum Origin of the Universe (1985) (55)
- Ultrahigh energy neutrinos from hidden-sector topological defects (2000) (54)
- Self-interaction of charged particles in the gravitational field (1979) (54)
- Exponential amplification of waves in the gravitational field of ultrarelativistic rotating body (1978) (54)
- Superconducting Cosmic Strings (1986) (50)
- Collapse of simple harmonic universe (2011) (50)
- Density fluctuations from strings and galaxy formation (1983) (50)
- Cosmic string scaling in flat space (2005) (49)
- Quantum cosmology and eternal inflation (2002) (49)
- Tunneling wave function of the universe (2018) (49)
- Anthropic predictions for vacuum energy and neutrino masses in the light of WMAP-3 (2004) (49)
- Evolution of cosmic superstring networks: A Numerical simulation (2007) (49)
- Phase transitions in de Sitter space (1983) (48)
- Cosmological evolution of monopoles connected by strings (1982) (48)
- Transdimensional tunneling in the multiverse (2009) (46)
- Size of the smallest scales in cosmic string networks (2002) (45)
- Dark energy equation of state and anthropic selection (2003) (45)
- Eternal inflation, bubble collisions and the persistence of memory (2006) (43)
- Eternal observers and bubble abundances in the landscape (2006) (42)
- The quantum cosmology debate (1998) (42)
- Parity violating currents in thermal radiation (1978) (41)
- Philosophical Implications of Inflationary Cosmology (2003) (40)
- Watchers of the multiverse (2012) (40)
- Extremely high energy neutrinos from cosmic strings (2011) (40)
- Spontaneously Broken Global Symmetries and Cosmology (1984) (39)
- Looking for cosmic strings (1986) (39)
- Anthropic predictions for neutrino masses (2003) (38)
- Anthropic predictions: the case of the cosmological constant (2004) (38)
- Probability distribution for omega in open universe inflation (1996) (38)
- Observer dependence of bubble nucleation and Schwinger pair production (2012) (37)
- Spacetime structure of an inflating global monopole (1997) (37)
- Cancellation of equilibrium parity-violating currents (1980) (37)
- Neutrino transport: no asymmetry in equilibrium (1998) (37)
- Holographic multiverse and conformal invariance (2009) (36)
- Density parameter and the anthropic principle (1998) (36)
- Singular instantons and the creation of open universes (1998) (36)
- Recycling universe (1997) (36)
- Reionization from cosmic string loops (2006) (35)
- Field theory models for variable cosmological constant (2001) (33)
- Radiation from vacuum strings and domain walls (1984) (31)
- Stealth Branes (2001) (30)
- Probabilities in the landscape (2006) (30)
- Parity Nonconservation and Rotating Black Holes (1978) (30)
- Dynamics of superconducting strings with chiral currents (2000) (30)
- Inflation in random Gaussian landscapes (2016) (29)
- Holographic multiverse and the measure problem (2011) (28)
- Early structure formation from cosmic string loops (2012) (28)
- Living with ghosts in Lorentz invariant theories (2012) (27)
- Theory of thermoelectric effects in dilute alloys (1978) (26)
- Parity nonconservation and the origin of cosmic magnetic fields (1982) (26)
- Instability of an emergent universe (2014) (25)
- Gravitational radiation from monopoles connected by strings (1996) (25)
- Gravity of superheavy higher-dimensional global defects (2003) (24)
- Vacuum defects without a vacuum (1998) (24)
- Tunneling wave function of the universe. II. The backreaction problem (2018) (24)
- Non-singular bounce transitions in the multiverse (2013) (23)
- Random-bond Ising chain in a magnetic field at low temperatures (1978) (22)
- Macroscopic parity violating effects and 3He-A (1999) (22)
- Left-right symmetric theories and vacuum domain walls and strings (1982) (22)
- Vacuum statistics and stability in axionic landscapes (2016) (21)
- Arrows of time and the beginning of the universe (2013) (21)
- Cosmic strings and primordial black holes (2018) (21)
- In defense of the ''tunneling'' wave function of the universe (1996) (20)
- Inflation is not past-eternal (2001) (20)
- Measures for a transdimensional multiverse (2010) (20)
- CMB spectral distortions from black holes formed by vacuum bubbles (2018) (20)
- Eternal Inflation, Black Holes, and the Future of Civilizations (1999) (19)
- Gravitational Effects in Guth Cosmology (1982) (19)
- Cosmic strings: progress and problems (2005) (19)
- Gravitational field of vacuumless defects (1998) (19)
- Ultrahigh energy neutrinos from superconducting cosmic strings (2009) (19)
- Early reionization by cosmic strings reexamined (2004) (17)
- Eternal inflation and the present universe (1999) (17)
- Stabilizing oscillating universes against quantum decay (2014) (17)
- Initial conditions for slow-roll inflation in a random Gaussian landscape (2017) (17)
- A quantum measure of the multiverse (2013) (17)
- Inflation in multi-field random Gaussian landscapes (2017) (16)
- Inflating magnetically charged braneworlds (2003) (16)
- Pauli-Villars regularization and trace anomalies (1978) (16)
- Factor ordering problem in stochastic inflation (1999) (16)
- Hessian eigenvalue distribution in a random Gaussian landscape (2017) (16)
- Quantum Cosmology and the Constants of Nature (1995) (15)
- Cosmological Density Fluctuations Produced by a Goldstone Field (1982) (15)
- Beyond the big bang (2006) (15)
- Cosmological constant problems and their solutions (2001) (15)
- The principle of mediocrity (2011) (15)
- Schwarzschild sphere and classical electron self-energy problem (1978) (15)
- Superconducting cosmic strings as gamma ray burst engines (2000) (13)
- Flyover vacuum decay (2019) (13)
- Minkowski vacua can be metastable (2011) (13)
- Particle creation in a tunneling universe. I (2002) (13)
- Ultra High Energy Gamma Rays as signature of Topological Defects (1998) (13)
- Eternal inflation and chaotic terminology (2004) (12)
- Eternal inflation in swampy landscapes (2019) (12)
- Tunneling wavefunction for an anisotropic universe (1989) (11)
- Phenomenology of the CAH+ measure (2011) (11)
- Notes on superconducting cosmic strings (1987) (11)
- Particle creation in a tunneling universe. II. Massive particles (2003) (11)
- Topological defects from the multiverse (2015) (10)
- Topological defects and open inflation (1997) (10)
- Tunneling decay rate in quantum cosmology (2015) (10)
- Magnetic field generation by rotating black holes (1981) (9)
- ``Lattice-free'' simulations of topological defect formation (1997) (9)
- Inflation in random landscapes with two energy scales (2017) (9)
- Density of strings formed at a second-order cosmological phase transition (1995) (9)
- Global structure of the multiverse and the measure problem (2013) (9)
- Gamma-rays from superconducting cosmic strings (1988) (9)
- Cosmology for the Curious (2017) (8)
- Inflation with negative potentials and the signature reversal symmetry (2013) (8)
- Quantum tunneling of superconducting string currents (2002) (8)
- Cosmological singularity theorems and black holes (2013) (8)
- The Impossibility of Steady-State Inflation (1994) (7)
- Charged Vacuum Condensate Near a Superconducting Cosmic String (1999) (7)
- Cosmic String Formation from Correlated Fields (1997) (7)
- Fireballs from superconducting cosmic strings (2016) (7)
- Constraints on non-minimal coupling from quantum cosmology (2019) (7)
- Universal Doomsday: Analyzing Our Prospects for Survival (2013) (6)
- Past incompleteness of a bouncing multiverse (2014) (6)
- Spinning black holes as cosmic string factories (2020) (5)
- Four-volume cutoff measure of the multiverse (2019) (5)
- General solution for chiral-current-carrying strings (2000) (5)
- Cosmic string formation by flux trapping (2007) (4)
- Causality gives no constraints on monopole annihilation (1984) (4)
- The Beginning of the Universe (2015) (4)
- An Expanding Universe (2017) (3)
- Near Cancellation of Electron-Phonon Corrections in Thermoelectric Effects in Alloys (1979) (3)
- Anthropic Approach to the Cosmological Constant Problems (2003) (3)
- Parity nonconservation and stellar collapse (1979) (3)
- On cosmic natural selection (2006) (3)
- Gravitational interactions of cosmic strings (1987) (3)
- Anthropic Prediction for Λ and the Q Catastrophe(Chapter 2. Gravity and Cosmology-Four-Dimensional Phenomenology-, Part I: Invited Talks, The Next Chapter in Einstein's Legacy) (2006) (3)
- Spontaneous violation of reflectional symmetry in solids (1982) (3)
- Correspondence principle in the self-energy problem (1979) (3)
- Black holes and uptunneling suppress Boltzmann brains (2021) (2)
- Clustering of cosmic string loops (2020) (2)
- Lattice Effects in Simulations of Topological Defect Formation (1997) (2)
- Kinky cosmic strings (1990) (2)
- Quantum instability of an oscillating universe (2019) (2)
- Hubble’s Law and the Expanding Universe (2017) (2)
- Bubble nucleation as seen by different observers (2020) (2)
- Creation of massive particles in a tunneling universe (2003) (2)
- Cosmological chirality and magnetic fields from parity violating particle decays (2021) (2)
- The correspondence principle in the problem of the self-energy of the electron (1975) (1)
- N ov 2 00 3 Formation and Evolution of Cosmic D-strings (2004) (1)
- Open Universes, Eternal Inflation, and the Anthropic Principle (1998) (1)
- Making Predictions in Eternally Innating Universe (1995) (1)
- Perspectives in cosmology (2009) (1)
- Correspondence principle in the electron self-energy problem (1974) (1)
- No black holes from cosmic string cusps (2021) (1)
- QUANTUM COSMOLOGY (1993) (1)
- The tunneling wavefunction in Kantowski-Sachs quantum cosmology (2022) (1)
- Early universe phenomena (1992) (0)
- ournal of C osmology and A stroparticle P hysics J Fast full N-body simulations of generic modified gravity: conformal coupling models (0)
- String Theory and the Multiverse (2017) (0)
- A Historical Overview (2017) (0)
- Se p 20 03 LPT-ORSAY 03-64 Inflating magnetically charged braneworlds (2008) (0)
- Schwarzschild surface and derivation of motion equations from field equations in general relativity (1975) (0)
- Cosmic Defects (1996) (0)
- The Fabric of Space and Time (2017) (0)
- Gravitational Wave Background from Hybrid Topological Defects Typeset Using Revt E X (1996) (0)
- The Hot Big Bang (2017) (0)
- Dark Matter and Dark Energy (2017) (0)
- 05 01 5 v 1 1 M ay 2 00 6 Eternalobservers and bubble abundances in the landscape (2022) (0)
- Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from Superheavy Relic Particles (1998) (0)
- The Very Early Universe (2017) (0)
- The Quantum World (2017) (0)
- v 2 2 M ay 2 00 1 Many worlds in one (2021) (0)
- The Fate of the Universe (2017) (0)
- 05 09 18 4 v 3 27 N ov 2 00 5 Probabilities in the inflationary multiverse (2005) (0)
- Prepared for submission to JCAP Watchers of the multiverse (2012) (0)
- Quantum Cosmology and the Constants of Nature 1 (1995) (0)
- Density parameter in quasiopen inflation (1998) (0)
- Ultra-high energy cosmic rays from decaying relic particles (1999) (0)
- Positron annihilation in metals with broken reflectional symmetry (1984) (0)
- Testing Inflation: Predictions and Observations (2017) (0)
- Cosmic Strings a (1986) (0)
- 99 05 46 0 v 3 7 M ar 2 00 0 Macroscopic parity violating effects and 3 (2022) (0)
- Problems with the Big Bang (2017) (0)
- The Theory of Cosmic Inflation (2017) (0)
- 03 04 04 3 v 1 4 A pr 2 00 3 Cosmic Attractors and Gauge Hierarchy (2003) (0)
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