Chethan Krishnan

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Chethan Krishnan is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chethan Krishnan has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 54 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 24 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Chethan Krishnan's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (56 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (54 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (19 papers). Chethan Krishnan is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (56 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (54 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (19 papers). Chethan Krishnan collaborates with scholars based in India, Belgium and Iran. Chethan Krishnan's co-authors include M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, Tao Yang, Pallab Basu, Eoin Ó Colgáin, Jarah Evslin, Stanislav Kuperstein, Shubho Roy, K. Vinod Kumar, Lu Yin and Roya Mohayaee and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Chethan Krishnan

58 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Does Hubble tension signal a breakdown in FLRW cosmology? 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 40 80 120
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Does Hubble tension signal a breakdown in FLRW cosmology?
    2021 124 citations Chethan Krishnan, Roya Mohayaee et al. Classical and Quantum Gravity profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chethan Krishnan India 18 1.1k 1.1k 414 191 57 60 1.3k
Donal O’Connell United States 25 1.4k 1.3× 2.1k 2.0× 575 1.4× 197 1.0× 76 1.3× 43 2.4k
Mohsen Alishahiha Iran 26 1.9k 1.8× 2.0k 1.9× 913 2.2× 251 1.3× 66 1.2× 73 2.3k
Joan Simón United Kingdom 22 1.9k 1.7× 1.8k 1.7× 790 1.9× 170 0.9× 60 1.1× 54 2.3k
Raphael Flauger United States 21 1.4k 1.3× 1.2k 1.1× 201 0.5× 117 0.6× 23 0.4× 32 1.7k
Sergei Dubovsky United States 21 1.8k 1.6× 2.0k 1.9× 499 1.2× 223 1.2× 45 0.8× 37 2.3k
Fiorenzo Bastianelli Italy 22 742 0.7× 1.2k 1.1× 451 1.1× 264 1.4× 42 0.7× 71 1.3k
Ram Brustein Israel 24 1.9k 1.7× 1.7k 1.6× 483 1.2× 170 0.9× 22 0.4× 117 2.1k
Keith R. Dienes United States 26 1.8k 1.6× 2.8k 2.6× 327 0.8× 160 0.8× 30 0.5× 102 2.9k
Arvind Rajaraman United States 26 2.1k 1.9× 3.0k 2.9× 311 0.8× 205 1.1× 28 0.5× 93 3.1k
Bum-Hoon Lee South Korea 20 1.2k 1.1× 1.5k 1.4× 460 1.1× 212 1.1× 62 1.1× 136 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chethan Krishnan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chethan Krishnan

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Krishnan, Chethan, et al.. (2025). A vestige of FZZ duality in higher dimensions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(1). 1 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan, et al.. (2024). A smooth horizon without a smooth horizon. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(3). 13 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan, et al.. (2024). Towards a realistic dipole cosmology: the dipole ΛCDM model. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 41(14). 145007–145007. 5 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan, et al.. (2024). Normal modes of the stretched horizon: a bulk mechanism for black hole microstate level spacing. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(3). 10 indexed citations
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Das, Suman, et al.. (2023). Synthetic fuzzballs: a linear ramp from black hole normal modes. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(1). 17 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan, et al.. (2023). A tilt instability in the cosmological principle. The European Physical Journal C. 83(9). 14 indexed citations
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Das, Suman, Sumit K. Garg, Chethan Krishnan, & Arnab Kundu. (2023). Fuzzballs and random matrices. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(10). 17 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan, et al.. (2023). Copernican Paradigm beyond FLRW. Symmetry. 15(2). 428–428. 3 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan, et al.. (2021). Running Hubble tension and a H0 diagnostic. Physical review. D. 103(10). 110 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan, Roya Mohayaee, Eoin Ó Colgáin, M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, & Lu Yin. (2021). Does Hubble tension signal a breakdown in FLRW cosmology?. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 38(18). 184001–184001. 124 indexed citations breakdown →
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Krishnan, Chethan, et al.. (2020). A hairy box in three dimensions. Nuclear Physics B. 958. 115115–115115. 1 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan, Eoin Ó Colgáin, Ruchika Ruchika, et al.. (2020). Is there an early Universe solution to Hubble tension?. Physical review. D. 102(10). 116 indexed citations
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Goswami, Gaurav, et al.. (2020). Swampland, axions, and minimal warm inflation. Physical review. D. 101(10). 40 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan & K. Vinod Kumar. (2018). Exact Solution of a Strongly Coupled Gauge Theory in 0+1 Dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 120(20). 201603–201603. 14 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan, et al.. (2016). An alternative path integral for quantum gravity. NOT FOUND REPOSITORY (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore). 13 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan, et al.. (2015). 3D gravity, Chern–Simons and higher spins: A mini introduction. Modern Physics Letters A. 30(32). 1530023–1530023. 2 indexed citations
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Craps, Ben, et al.. (2014). Low tension strings on a cosmological singularity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2014(8). 6 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan. (2010). Quantum Field Theory, Black Holes and Holography. arXiv (Cornell University). 7 indexed citations
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Fischler, Willy, Chethan Krishnan, Sònia Paban, & Marija Žanić. (2007). Vacuum Bubble in an Inhomogeneous Cosmology: A Toy Model. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Chethan & Edoardo Di Napoli. (2005). Multi-parametric q-deformation of the SO(5) algebra: With deSitter in Mind. arXiv (Cornell University).

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