A. O. Barvinsky

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
119 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

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A. O. Barvinsky is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, A. O. Barvinsky has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 98 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 53 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in A. O. Barvinsky's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (99 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (96 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (50 papers). A. O. Barvinsky is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (99 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (96 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (50 papers). A. O. Barvinsky collaborates with scholars based in Russia, Canada and Germany. A. O. Barvinsky's co-authors include G. A. Vilkovisky, Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik, Alexei A. Starobinsky, G. Kunstatter, Yu. V. Gusev, Saurya Das, Claus Kiefer, Sergey Sibiryakov, V. V. Zhytnikov and Mario Herrero-Valea and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Reports and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

A. O. Barvinsky

113 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The generalized Schwinger-Dewitt technique in gauge theories and quantum gravity

1985 481 citations A. O. Barvinsky, G. A. Vilkovisky profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. O. Barvinsky Russia	32	3.2k	3.2k	1.4k	634	157	119	3.7k
V. A. Rubakov Russia	33	4.0k 1.3×	4.5k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	727 1.1×	134 0.9×	109	5.3k
Sandip P. Trivedi India	40	5.6k 1.8×	6.5k 2.1×	1.9k 1.3×	592 0.9×	186 1.2×	69	6.9k
Sergio Zerbini Italy	29	4.4k 1.4×	4.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.9×	172 1.1×	119	5.1k
Jutta Kunz Germany	47	6.2k 2.0×	5.9k 1.9×	1.2k 0.8×	579 0.9×	145 0.9×	305	7.2k
Daniel F. Litim United Kingdom	39	1.9k 0.6×	4.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	560 0.9×	196 1.2×	91	4.8k
Alberto Nicolis United States	30	5.0k 1.6×	4.5k 1.4×	986 0.7×	508 0.8×	87 0.6×	55	5.6k
Petr Hořava United States	23	4.9k 1.5×	5.1k 1.6×	2.5k 1.7×	671 1.1×	170 1.1×	48	5.9k
Radu Roiban United States	49	3.6k 1.1×	6.4k 2.0×	2.0k 1.4×	296 0.5×	248 1.6×	124	7.2k
M.T. Grisaru United States	37	2.2k 0.7×	5.6k 1.8×	1.7k 1.2×	576 0.9×	200 1.3×	109	6.0k
Jorge Pullin United States	33	3.2k 1.0×	3.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.5×	765 1.2×	171 1.1×	164	4.2k

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Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2025). Adjustment of Faddeev-Popov quantization to reducible gauge theories: Antisymmetric tensor fermion in AdSd space. Physical review. D. 112(6).

Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2025). Schwinger-DeWitt expansion for the heat kernel of nonminimal operators in causal theories. Physical review. D. 112(7). 1 indexed citations

Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2024). Schwinger—DeWitt technique in quantum gravity. Physics-Uspekhi. 67(8). 751–767.

Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2024). Commutator technique for the heat kernel of minimal higher derivative operators. Physical review. D. 110(8). 2 indexed citations

Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2024). Nonequilibrium Schwinger-Keldysh formalism for density matrix states: Analytic properties and implications in cosmology. Physical review. D. 109(2). 2 indexed citations

Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2023). Notes on conformal anomaly, nonlocal effective action, and the metamorphosis of the running scale. Physical review. D. 108(4). 6 indexed citations

Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2023). Local term in the anomaly-induced action of Weyl quantum gravity. Physical review. D. 108(8). 4 indexed citations

Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2023). Restricted gauge theory formalism and unimodular gravity. Physical review. D. 108(6). 4 indexed citations

Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2023). Asymptotic freedom in (3+1)-dimensional projectable Hořava gravity: Connecting the ultraviolet and infrared domains. Physical review. D. 108(12). 5 indexed citations

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Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2017). Hořava Gravity is Asymptotically Free in 2+1 Dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 119(21). 211301–211301. 43 indexed citations

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Barvinsky, A. O.. (2011). Serendipitous discoveries in nonlocal ghost-free gravity theory: dark energy and dark matter. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Barvinsky, A. O., et al.. (2009). Higgs boson, renormalization group, and cosmology. arXiv (Cornell University). 12 indexed citations

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Barvinsky, A. O.. (2007). Why There is Something Rather than Nothing: Cosmological Constant from Summing over Everything in Lorentzian Quantum Gravity. Physical Review Letters. 99(7). 71301–71301. 24 indexed citations

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Barvinsky, A. O., Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik, Claus Kiefer, & Andreas Rathke. (2002). Radion-induced graviton oscillations in the two-brane world. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Barvinsky, A. O., Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik, Andreas Rathke, & Claus Kiefer. (2002). Braneworld effective action: An alternative to Kaluza-Klein reduction. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Barvinsky, A. O.. (1996). Geometry of the Dirac quantization of constrained systems. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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Barvinsky, A. O. & Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik. (1995). Preferred Basis in the Many-Worlds Interpretation in Quantum Theory and symmetries of the System. 1. 261–265. 2 indexed citations

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Barvinsky, A. O. & Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik. (1995). Preferred basis in quantum theory and the problem of classicalization of the quantum Universe. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 52(2). 743–757. 19 indexed citations

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Barvinsky, A. O., Yu. V. Gusev, G. A. Vilkovisky, & V. V. Zhytnikov. (1995). The one-loop effective action and trace anomaly in four dimensions. Nuclear Physics B. 439(3). 561–582. 50 indexed citations

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Barvinsky, A. O., Yu. V. Gusev, G. A. Vilkovisky, & V. V. Zhytnikov. (1994). The basis of nonlocal curvature invariants in quantum gravity theory. Third order. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 35(7). 3525–3542. 48 indexed citations

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