Frederick J. Ernst

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Frederick J. Ernst is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Frederick J. Ernst has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 27 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 21 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Frederick J. Ernst's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (23 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (22 papers) and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (16 papers). Frederick J. Ernst is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (23 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (22 papers) and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (16 papers). Frederick J. Ernst collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Germany. Frederick J. Ernst's co-authors include Isidore Hauser, Kameshwar C. Wali, R. G. Sachs, Walter J. Wild, M. E. Ebel, Jerzy Plebański, Dongsheng Guo, Robert Warnock, C. Hoenselaers and E. Ruiz and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Annals of Physics.

In The Last Decade

Frederick J. Ernst

54 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

New Formulation of the Axially Symmetric Gravitational Fi... 1968 2026 1987 2006 1968 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. New Formulation of the Axially Symmetric Gravitational Field Problem
    1968 541 citations Frederick J. Ernst Physical Review profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Frederick J. Ernst United States 20 1.7k 1.6k 848 233 136 54 2.5k
William Kinnersley United States 13 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 613 0.7× 179 0.8× 112 0.8× 20 1.7k
C. Hoenselaers Germany 17 2.6k 1.6× 2.2k 1.4× 791 0.9× 195 0.8× 249 1.8× 64 3.0k
Eduard Herlt Germany 9 2.9k 1.7× 2.4k 1.5× 781 0.9× 221 0.9× 297 2.2× 19 3.2k
Dietrich Krämer Germany 14 3.2k 1.9× 2.8k 1.7× 1.0k 1.2× 284 1.2× 345 2.5× 57 3.8k
H. van Dam United States 23 1.7k 1.0× 1.8k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 630 2.7× 120 0.9× 72 2.6k
Andrzej Trautman Poland 22 1.4k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 635 0.7× 247 1.1× 395 2.9× 65 2.1k
R. P. Kerr New Zealand 14 2.3k 1.4× 1.7k 1.0× 508 0.6× 257 1.1× 161 1.2× 25 2.6k
James M. Nester Taiwan 26 2.9k 1.8× 2.8k 1.7× 1.3k 1.6× 296 1.3× 177 1.3× 90 3.5k
Jerzy Plebański Mexico 27 2.2k 1.3× 2.0k 1.2× 1.3k 1.5× 537 2.3× 397 2.9× 98 3.2k
Dieter R. Brill United States 28 2.4k 1.4× 1.9k 1.2× 785 0.9× 481 2.1× 252 1.9× 64 2.8k

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All Works

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Ernst, Frederick J., V. S. Manko, & E. Ruiz. (2007). Equatorial symmetry/antisymmetry of stationary axisymmetric electrovac spacetimes: II. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 24(9). 2193–2203. 10 indexed citations
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Ernst, Frederick J.. (1994). Fully electrified Neugebauer spacetimes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 50(10). 6179–6189. 7 indexed citations
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Ernst, Frederick J.. (1994). Determining parameters of the Neugebauer family of vacuum spacetimes in terms of data specified on the symmetry axis. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 50(8). 4993–4999. 9 indexed citations
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Hauser, Isidore & Frederick J. Ernst. (1993). Gürses’s type (b) transformations are neighborhood isometries. Physical Review Letters. 71(3). 316–319. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Wei & Frederick J. Ernst. (1989). A family of electrovac colliding wave solutions of Einstein’s equations. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 30(3). 678–682. 3 indexed citations
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Hauser, Isidore & Frederick J. Ernst. (1989). Initial value problem for colliding gravitational plane waves. I. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 30(4). 872–887. 20 indexed citations
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Ernst, Frederick J., et al.. (1987). Colliding gravitational plane waves with noncollinear polarization. I. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 28(9). 2155–2161. 21 indexed citations
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Ernst, Frederick J.. (1986). Derivation of Nutku-Halil colliding plane wave solution from isotropic Kasner metric using double-Harrison transformation. 141. 1 indexed citations
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Hauser, Isidore & Frederick J. Ernst. (1985). Proof of a generalized Geroch conjecture.. 115–125. 1 indexed citations
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Hauser, Isidore & Frederick J. Ernst. (1980). A homogeneous Hilbert problem for the Kinnersley–Chitre transformations. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 21(5). 1126–1140. 83 indexed citations
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Hauser, Isidore & Frederick J. Ernst. (1979). Integral equation method for effecting Kinnersley-Chitre transformations. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 20(2). 362–369. 58 indexed citations
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Hauser, Isidore & Frederick J. Ernst. (1978). On the generation of new solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell field equations from electrovac spacetimes with isometries. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 19(6). 1316–1323. 13 indexed citations
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Ernst, Frederick J.. (1978). Coping with different languages in the null tetrad formulation of general relativity. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 19(2). 489–493. 14 indexed citations
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Ernst, Frederick J.. (1976). Removal of the nodal singularity of the C-metric. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 17(4). 515–516. 100 indexed citations
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Ernst, Frederick J.. (1971). Exterior-Algebraic Derivation of Einstein Field Equations Employing a Generalized Basis. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 12(11). 2395–2397. 13 indexed citations
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Ernst, Frederick J.. (1968). New Formulation of the Axially Symmetric Gravitational Field Problem. Physical Review. 167(5). 1175–1178. 541 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ernst, Frederick J., Robert Warnock, & Kameshwar C. Wali. (1966). Linear and Nonlinear Mass-Difference Effects in a Model of the Baryon Multiplets. Physical Review. 141(4). 1354–1372. 13 indexed citations
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Ernst, Frederick J., R. G. Sachs, & Kameshwar C. Wali. (1960). Electromagnetic Form Factors of the Nucleon. Physical Review. 119(3). 1105–1114. 188 indexed citations
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Ebel, M. E. & Frederick J. Ernst. (1960). On the role of the intermediate boson in μ → e + γ decay. Il Nuovo Cimento. 15(2). 173–180. 17 indexed citations
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Ernst, Frederick J.. (1960). Reactionμ+N→e+N′: Intermediate Boson Theory. Physical Review Letters. 5(10). 478–480. 14 indexed citations

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