Rafael Sorkin

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Rafael Sorkin is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara, California Institute of Technology, Syracuse University

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Rafael Sorkin's Degrees

PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley
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According to Wikipedia, Rafael Dolnick Sorkin is an American physicist. He is professor emeritus of physics at Syracuse University and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is best known as initiator and main proponent of the causal sets approach to quantum gravity.

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Rafael Sorkin's Published Works

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Gravitational action with null boundaries (2016) (358)
Quantum mechanics as quantum measure theory (1994) (345)
Classical sequential growth dynamics for causal sets (1999) (298)
Causal sets: Discrete gravity (2005) (243)
Forks in the road, on the way to quantum gravity (1997) (195)
On the Entropy of the Vacuum Outside a Horizon (2014) (180)
Causal Sets: Discrete Gravity (Notes for the Valdivia Summer School) (2003) (178)
QUANTUM GRAVITY PHENOMENOLOGY, LORENTZ INVARIANCE AND DISCRETENESS (2003) (169)
Fundamental quantum optics experiments conceivable with satellites—reaching relativistic distances and velocities (2012) (162)
Spacetime and causal sets. (1991) (149)
Spacetime as a Causal Set (1989) (148)
Variational Aspects of Relativistic Field Theories, with Application to Perfect Fluids (1977) (148)
Turning-point method for axisymmetric stability of rotating relativistic stars (1988) (134)
Entropy of self-gravitating radiation (1981) (128)
Quantum Measure Theory and its Interpretation (1995) (124)
Time-evolution problem in regge calculus (1975) (121)
Finitary substitute for continuous topology (1991) (120)
DISCRETENESS WITHOUT SYMMETRY BREAKING: A THEOREM (2006) (106)
Boundary terms in the action for the Regge calculus (1981) (102)
SPIN 1/2 FROM GRAVITY (1980) (93)
Complex actions in two-dimensional topology change (1995) (89)
Approaches to Quantum Gravity: Does locality fail at intermediate length scales? (2009) (87)
Impossible Measurements on Quantum Fields (1993) (87)
The electromagnetic field on a simplicial net (1975) (84)
A causal order for spacetimes with Lorentzian metrics: proof of compactness of the space of causal curves (1995) (81)
Quantum dynamics without the wavefunction (2006) (81)
A Positive mass theorem based on the focusing and retardation of null geodesics (1993) (79)
The Statistical Mechanics of Black Hole Thermodynamics (1997) (72)
``Observables'' in causal set cosmology (2002) (69)
A Stability Criterion for Many Parameter Equilibrium Families (1982) (64)
Testing Born’s Rule in Quantum Mechanics with a Triple Slit Experiment (2008) (61)
Boundary and corner terms in the action for general relativity (2016) (61)
Evidence for a continuum limit in causal set dynamics (2000) (61)
A distinguished vacuum state for a quantum field in a curved spacetime: formalism, features, and cosmology (2012) (59)
A Criterion for the Onset of Instability at a Turning Point (1981) (58)
A Specimen of Theory Construction from Quantum Gravity (1995) (55)
First Steps with Causal Sets (1991) (55)
Scalar Field Theory on a Causal Set in Histories form (2011) (54)
Parallelizable implicit evolution scheme for Regge calculus (1994) (54)
Spin ½ From Gravity. (1980) (54)
Role of time in the sum-over-histories framework for gravity (1994) (54)
An exercise in "anhomomorphic logic" (2007) (52)
Introduction to Topological Geons (1986) (52)
Large Fluctuations in the Horizon Area and What They Can Tell Us about Entropy and Quantum Gravity (1999) (50)
Ten theses on black hole entropy (2005) (49)
Relativity Theory Does Not Imply that the Future Already Exists: A Counterexample (2007) (48)
General Covariance and the "Problem of Time" in a Discrete Cosmology (2002) (47)
Expressing entropy globally in terms of (4D) field-correlations (2012) (47)
Occam's razor meets WMAP (2006) (46)
Energy-momentum diffusion from spacetime discreteness (2008) (46)
Generalized causal set d’Alembertians (2014) (45)
On the status of highly entropic objects (2003) (45)
Random walk in generalized quantum theory (2004) (42)
Indications of Causal Set Cosmology (2000) (42)
“Renormalization” transformations induced by cycles of expansion and contraction in causal set cosmology (2000) (41)
Is the cosmological "constant" a nonlocal quantum residue of discreteness of the causal set type? (2007) (40)
Half-integral spin from quantum gravity (1982) (39)
ASPECTS OF SPIN AND STATISTICS IN GENERALLY COVARIANT THEORIES (1989) (37)
How Wrinkled is the Surface of a Black Hole (1997) (36)
An example relevant to the Kretschmann-Einstein debate (2002) (36)
Causal continuity in degenerate spacetimes (1999) (36)
Does Locality Fail at Intermediate Length-Scales (2007) (35)
A Bell inequality analog in quantum measure theory (2006) (34)
Quantum symmetries from quantum phases, fermions from bosons, A Z2 anomally and Galilean invariance (1987) (34)
A ground state for the causal diamond in 2 dimensions (2012) (34)
Hilbert spaces from path integrals (2010) (33)
Toward a fundamental theorem of quantal measure theory (2011) (33)
On energy in 5-dimensional gravity and the mass of the Kaluza-Klein monopole (1987) (33)
Perfect mirrors and the self-accelerating box paradox (2002) (33)
SPIN–STATISTICS THEOREMS WITHOUT RELATIVITY OR FIELD THEORY (1993) (32)
Black-Hole Entropy as Causal Links (2003) (32)
A spin-statistics theorem for certain topological geons (1996) (31)
A sum-over-histories account of an EPR(B) experiment (1991) (31)
Logic is to the quantum as geometry is to gravity (2010) (29)
Entanglement entropy in causal set theory (2016) (28)
Spacetime entanglement entropy in 1 + 1 dimensions (2013) (27)
From green function to quantum field (2017) (24)
Classical Topology and Quantum Phases: Quantum Geons (1989) (23)
Development of simplectic methods for the metrical and electromagnetic fields (1974) (23)
Two Topics concerning Black Holes: Extremality of the Energy, Fractality of the Horizon (1995) (23)
Derivation of a Bogomol'ny inequality in five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein theory (1988) (23)
The disjointed thermodynamics of rotating black holes with a NUT twist (2007) (22)
Erratum: Time-evolution problem in Regge calculus (1981) (22)
A general relation between kink-exchange and kink-rotation (1988) (21)
The quantum electromagnetic field in multiply connected space (1979) (21)
On the relation between charge and topology (1977) (21)
Conserved Quantities as Action Variations (1988) (20)
A New Criterion for Secular Instability of Rapidly Rotating Stars (1977) (20)
AN ANALYSIS OF THE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MAPPING CLASS GROUP OF A MULTIGEON THREE-MANIFOLD (1996) (20)
CONSEQUENCES OF SPACETIME TOPOLOGY (1990) (19)
Dyon spin and statistics: A fiber-bundle theory of interacting magnetic and electric charges (1979) (19)
Cosmological tests of Everpresent Λ (2017) (19)
Light, links and causal sets (2009) (18)
a Topological Spin-Statistics Theorem or a Use of the Antiparticle (1990) (18)
Two-site quantum random walk (2011) (17)
Is the spacetime metric Euclidean rather than Lorentzian (2009) (17)
Instantons and unitarity in quantum cosmology with fixed four-volume (1998) (17)
A quantitative occam's razor (1983) (17)
STATISTICS AND GENERAL RELATIVITY (1989) (16)
A simplified derivation of stimulated emission by black holes (1987) (16)
Particle statistics in three dimensions (1983) (16)
A spin-statistics theorem for composites containing both electric and magnetic charges (1980) (14)
On stress-energy tensors (1977) (14)
Erratum: The electromagnetic field on a simplicial net (1978) (13)
Non-time-orientable lorentzian cobordism allows for pair creation (1986) (13)
Stochastic evolution on a manifold of states (1986) (13)
The gravitational-electromagnetic Noether operator and the second-order energy flux (1991) (13)
Lorentzian angles and trigonometry including lightlike vectors (2019) (13)
The Sorkin–Johnston state in a patch of the trousers spacetime (2016) (12)
An exercise in (2007) (12)
When Is an Area Law Not an Area Law? (2015) (12)
Onset of the Asymptotic Regime for (Uniformly Random) Finite Orders (2017) (12)
Initial conditions and unitarity in unimodular quantum cosmology (1993) (12)
Big extra dimensions make lambda too small (2005) (11)
Discreteness and the transmission of light from distant sources (2010) (11)
Energy extremality in the presence of a black hole (1995) (10)
A manifestly covariant framework for causal set dynamics (2019) (9)
Onset of the Asymptotic Regime for Finite Orders (2015) (9)
Geon statistics and UIR’s of the mapping class group (1997) (9)
Spin and statistics in quantum gravity (2001) (9)
Statistics of Yang-Mills solitons (1983) (9)
Topological Aspects of String Theories (1987) (9)
Indecomposable Ideals in Incidence Algebras (2003) (8)
Kinematics of Yang-Mills solitons (1983) (8)
On the meaning of the canonical ensemble (1979) (7)
The unitary multiplicity‐free representations of SL4(R) (1980) (7)
Does a quantum particle know its own energy? (2013) (6)
How to Measure the Quantum Measure (2016) (6)
Symmetry-breaking and zero-one laws (2019) (5)
On the failure of the time-energy uncertainty principle (1979) (5)
TOPOLOGICAL SPIN-STATISTICS THEOREMS FOR STRINGS (1992) (5)
To What Type of Logic Does the "Tetralemma" Belong? (2010) (5)
Measurements and analysis of response function of cold atoms in optical molasses (2021) (4)
THE SPIN-STATISTICS CONNECTION FROM HOMOLOGY GROUPS OF CONFIGURATION SPACE AND AN ANYON WESS-ZUMINO TERM (1992) (3)
Thermodynamics of rotating NUT-charged spacetimes (2008) (3)
Manifold-topology from K-causal order (2018) (3)
Quantum gravity: quantum theory of gravity. (1985) (2)
A Historical Perspective on Cancer (2000) (2)
New Demonstration of the Positivity of Mass (1992) (2)
Testing Quantum Mechanics using a Triple slit experiment (2010) (1)
An Energy Bound Deduced from the Vanishing of the Radiation Reaction Force during Uniform Acceleration (1998) (1)
An equation for a time-dependent profit rate (2017) (0)
A ground state for the causal diamond in 2 dimensions (2012) (0)
Is the cosm ological\constant" a nonlocalquantum residue ofdiscreteness ofthe causalset type? ? (2013) (0)
2 2 0 O ct 2 00 2 “ Observables ” in causal set cosmology (2002) (0)
From Theory to Observation with Highly Entropic Objects (2003) (0)
Tails and tails of tails: Probing event horizon via gravitational waves (2019) (0)
Mathematical studies of Einstein's and other relativistic equations/alternative gravity theories (1992) (0)
Quantum Gravity: Quantum Theory of Gravity . Essays in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Bryce S. DeWitt. Steven M. Christensen, Ed. Hilger, Bristol, 1984 (U.S. distributor, Heyden, Philadelphia). xvi, 483 pp., illus. $54. (1985) (0)
A 5-Dimensional Monopole (1984) (0)
Massless particle diffusion in causal set theory (2009) (0)
A curious bound on the energy of rubber bands and similar devices (1998) (0)
version 8 An exercise in “ anhomomorphic logic ” ⋆ (2015) (0)
Some Memories of Chandra (1997) (0)
II HOW THE GEON GOT ITS SPIN AND STATISTICS (0)
A distinguished vacuum state for a quantum field in a curved spacetime: formalism, features, and cosmology (2012) (0)
An inside view of the tensor product (2023) (0)
1 6 M ay 2 01 9 Manifold-Topology from K-Causal Order (2019) (0)
N ov 2 00 3 On the Status of Highly Entropic Objects (2005) (0)
Einstein and socialism (2009) (0)
Ja n 20 01 Spin and Statistics in Quantum Gravity (2008) (0)
The triviality of continuous multipliers for the real line (1978) (0)
How to Measure the Quantum Measure (2017) (0)
gr-qc/0302009 SU–GP–2002/12–1 Black Hole Entropy as Causal Links 1 (2003) (0)
Time, Four-Volume and the Gravitational Sum Over Histories (1989) (0)
Ja n 19 99 Causal continuity in degenerate spacetimes (2008) (0)
Generalized causal set d’Alembertians (2014) (0)
Noncontextuality in Quantum Measure Theory (2006) (0)
On the Status of Highly Entropi Obje ts (2015) (0)
A peculiar inequality on the energy of rubber bands and similar devices (1998) (0)
Causal structure and the positivity of mass. (1992) (0)

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