Top Cited Articles during 2015 by hep-th

The 100 most highly cited papers during 2015 cited by papers in the hep-th archive

Keep in mind that citation counts can never be exact, there is something like a 5% error in most of these numbers. Please do not fret about number 32 versus 33, as this is often not a statistically significant difference. More information about citations in INSPIRE can be found here.

Also note that the counts shown, and used in the rankings, are the counts as of 2016-01-04. Further, the counts shown by the ranking are only the cites satisfying the criteria for that list. Actual citation numbers in the database may change as corrections are made and papers are added, the links will take you to the updated numbers.

Annual and All-time 2015 editions

2015 reports for eprints

  1. 745 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
    Juan Martin Maldacena (Harvard U.). Nov 1997. 19 pp.
    Published in Int.J.Theor.Phys. 38 (1999) 1113-1133, Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 2 (1998) 231-252
    HUTP-97-A097, HUTP-98-A097
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1026654312961
    e-Print: hep-th/9711200 | PDF
  2. 481 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Anti-de Sitter space and holography
    Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). Feb 1998. 39 pp.
    Published in Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 2 (1998) 253-291
    IASSNS-HEP-98-15
    e-Print: hep-th/9802150 | PDF
  3. 413 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Gauge theory correlators from noncritical string theory
    S.S. Gubser, Igor R. Klebanov, Alexander M. Polyakov (Princeton U.). Feb 1998. 14 pp.
    Published in Phys.Lett. B428 (1998) 105-114
    PUPT-1767
    DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00377-3
    e-Print: hep-th/9802109 | PDF
  4. 258 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Holographic derivation of entanglement entropy from AdS/CFT
    Shinsei Ryu, Tadashi Takayanagi (Santa Barbara, KITP). Mar 2006. 5 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 96 (2006) 181602
    NSF-KITP-06-11
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.181602
    e-Print: hep-th/0603001 | PDF
  5. 180 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Large N field theories, string theory and gravity
    Ofer Aharony (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Steven S. Gubser (Harvard U.), Juan Martin Maldacena (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Harvard U.), Hirosi Ooguri (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley), Yaron Oz (CERN). May 1999. 262 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rept. 323 (2000) 183-386
    CERN-TH-99-122, HUTP-99-A027, LBNL-43113, RU-99-18, UCB-PTH-99-16, LBL-43113
    DOI: 10.1016/S0370-1573(99)00083-6
    e-Print: hep-th/9905111 | PDF
  6. 174 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Aspects of Holographic Entanglement Entropy
    Shinsei Ryu (Santa Barbara, KITP), Tadashi Takayanagi (Kyoto U.). May 2006. 54 pp.
    Published in JHEP 0608 (2006) 045
    NSF-KITP-06-31, KUNS-2021
    DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/08/045
    e-Print: hep-th/0605073 | PDF
  7. 164 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals
    Ofer Aharony (Weizmann Inst.), Oren Bergman (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Technion), Daniel Louis Jafferis (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Juan Maldacena (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). Jun 2008. 41 pp.
    Published in JHEP 0810 (2008) 091
    WIS-12-08-JUN-DPP
    DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/091
    e-Print: arXiv:0806.1218 [hep-th] | PDF
  8. 141 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Particle Creation by Black Holes
    S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.). Aug 1975. 22 pp.
    Published in Commun.Math.Phys. 43 (1975) 199-220, Commun.Math.Phys. 46 (1976) 206
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02345020
  9. 137 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Localization of gauge theory on a four-sphere and supersymmetric Wilson loops
    Vasily Pestun (Princeton U.). Dec 2007. 63 pp.
    Published in Commun.Math.Phys. 313 (2012) 71-129
    ITEP-TH-41-07, PUTP-2248
    DOI: 10.1007/s00220-012-1485-0
    e-Print: arXiv:0712.2824 [hep-th] | PDF
  10. 132 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Anti-de Sitter space, thermal phase transition, and confinement in gauge theories
    Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). Mar 1998. 27 pp.
    Published in Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 2 (1998) 505-532
    IASSNS-HEP-98-21
    e-Print: hep-th/9803131 | PDF
  11. 128 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Review of AdS/CFT Integrability: An Overview
    Niklas Beisert (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.) et al.. Dec 2010. 31 pp.
    Published in Lett.Math.Phys. 99 (2012) 3-32
    AEI-2010-175, CERN-PH-TH-2010-306, HU-EP-10-87, HU-MATH-2010-22, KCL-MTH-10-10, UMTG-270, UUITP-41-10
    DOI: 10.1007/s11005-011-0529-2
    e-Print: arXiv:1012.3982 [hep-th] | PDF
  12. 127 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Liouville Correlation Functions from Four-dimensional Gauge Theories
    Luis F. Alday, Davide Gaiotto, Yuji Tachikawa (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). Jun 2009. 32 pp.
    Published in Lett.Math.Phys. 91 (2010) 167-197
    DOI: 10.1007/s11005-010-0369-5
    e-Print: arXiv:0906.3219 [hep-th] | PDF
  13. 125 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Central Charges in the Canonical Realization of Asymptotic Symmetries: An Example from Three-Dimensional Gravity
    J.David Brown, M. Henneaux (Texas U.). 1986.
    Published in Commun.Math.Phys. 104 (1986) 207-226
    DOI: 10.1007/BF01211590
  14. 124 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    De Sitter vacua in string theory
    Shamit Kachru (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC), Renata Kallosh, Andrei D. Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Sandip P. Trivedi (Tata Inst.). Jan 2003. 11 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 046005
    SLAC-PUB-9630, SU-ITP-03-01, TIFR-TH-03-03
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.046005
    e-Print: hep-th/0301240 | PDF
  15. 119 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Seiberg-Witten prepotential from instanton counting
    Nikita A. Nekrasov (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette). Jun 2002. 34 pp.
    Published in Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 7 (2003) 5, 831-864
    ITEP-TH-22-02, IHES-P-04-22
    DOI: 10.4310/ATMP.2003.v7.n5.a4
    e-Print: hep-th/0206161 | PDF
  16. 117 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    The Black hole in three-dimensional space-time
    Maximo Banados (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago), Claudio Teitelboim (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jorge Zanelli (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago). May 8, 1992. 8 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 69 (1992) 1849-1851
    PRINT-92-0151 (CHILE), IASSNS-HEP-92-29
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1849
    e-Print: hep-th/9204099 | PDF
  17. 117 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Lectures on holographic methods for condensed matter physics
    Sean A. Hartnoll (Harvard U.). Mar 2009. 85 pp.
    Published in Class.Quant.Grav. 26 (2009) 224002
    DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/26/22/224002
    Prepared for Conference: C09-02-09.4 Proceedings
    e-Print: arXiv:0903.3246 [hep-th] | PDF
  18. 115 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    A New Type of Isotropic Cosmological Models Without Singularity
    Alexei A. Starobinsky (Cambridge U. & Landau Inst.). 1980.
    Published in Phys.Lett. B91 (1980) 99-102
    DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(80)90670-X
  19. 115 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Towards a derivation of holographic entanglement entropy
    Horacio Casini, Marina Huerta (Balseiro Inst., San Carlos de Bariloche), Robert C. Myers (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.). Feb 2011. 45 pp.
    Published in JHEP 1105 (2011) 036
    DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)036
    e-Print: arXiv:1102.0440 [hep-th] | PDF
  20. 113 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    N=2 dualities
    Davide Gaiotto (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). Apr 2009. 59 pp.
    Published in JHEP 1208 (2012) 034
    DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)034
    e-Print: arXiv:0904.2715 [hep-th] | PDF
  21. 109 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Entanglement entropy and quantum field theory
    Pasquale Calabrese (Oxford U., Theor. Phys.), John L. Cardy (Oxford U., Theor. Phys. & Oxford U.). May 2004. 28 pp.
    Published in J.Stat.Mech. 0406 (2004) P06002
    DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2004/06/P06002
    e-Print: hep-th/0405152 | PDF
  22. 104 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Holographic reconstruction of space-time and renormalization in the AdS / CFT correspondence
    Sebastian de Haro, Sergey N. Solodukhin (Utrecht U.), Kostas Skenderis (Princeton U.). Feb 2000. 27 pp.
    Published in Commun.Math.Phys. 217 (2001) 595-622
    SPIN-2000-05, ITP-UU-00-03, PUTP-1921
    DOI: 10.1007/s002200100381
    e-Print: hep-th/0002230 | PDF
  23. 103 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    A Covariant holographic entanglement entropy proposal
    Veronika E. Hubeny, Mukund Rangamani (Durham U. & Durham U., Dept. of Math.), Tadashi Takayanagi (Kyoto U.). May 2007. 71 pp.
    Published in JHEP 0707 (2007) 062
    DCPT-07-13, KUNS-2069
    DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/062
    e-Print: arXiv:0705.0016 [hep-th] | PDF
  24. 102 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Resummation of Massive Gravity
    Claudia de Rham (Geneva U.), Gregory Gabadadze (New York U., CCPP), Andrew J. Tolley (Case Western Reserve U.). Nov 2010. 4 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 106 (2011) 231101
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.231101
    e-Print: arXiv:1011.1232 [hep-th] | PDF
  25. 101 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Building a Holographic Superconductor
    Sean A. Hartnoll (Santa Barbara, KITP), Christopher P. Herzog (Princeton U.), Gary T. Horowitz (UC, Santa Barbara). Mar 2008. 10 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 101 (2008) 031601
    NSF-KITP-08-38, PUPT-2261
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.031601
    e-Print: arXiv:0803.3295 [hep-th] | PDF
  26. 100 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Black holes and entropy
    Jacob D. Bekenstein (Princeton U. & Texas U.). 1973.
    Published in Phys.Rev. D7 (1973) 2333-2346
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.7.2333
  27. 100 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    The Holographic Weyl anomaly
    M. Henningson (CERN), K. Skenderis (Leuven U.). Apr 1998. 11 pp.
    Published in JHEP 9807 (1998) 023
    CERN-TH-98-188, KUL-TF-98-21
    DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/07/023
    e-Print: hep-th/9806087 | PDF
  28. 100 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?
    Ahmed Almheiri (UC, Santa Barbara), Donald Marolf (UC, Santa Barbara & Santa Barbara, KITP), Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP), James Sully (UC, Santa Barbara). Jul 2012. 23 pp.
    Published in JHEP 1302 (2013) 062
    DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2013)062
    e-Print: arXiv:1207.3123 [hep-th] | PDF
  29. 96 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    String theory and noncommutative geometry
    Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). Aug 1999. 99 pp.
    Published in JHEP 9909 (1999) 032
    IASSNS-HEP-99-74
    DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/09/032
    e-Print: hep-th/9908142 | PDF
  30. 95 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    An Alternative to compactification
    Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.). Jun 1999. 10 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 4690-4693
    MIT-CTP-2874, PUPT-1867, BUHEP-99-13
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4690
    e-Print: hep-th/9906064 | PDF
  31. 94 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point
    Petr Horava (UC, Berkeley & LBL, Berkeley). Jan 2009. 29 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev. D79 (2009) 084008
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.084008
    e-Print: arXiv:0901.3775 [hep-th] | PDF
  32. 94 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Planck 2015 results. XX. Constraints on inflation
    Planck Collaboration (P.A.R. Ade (Cardiff U.) et al.). Feb 7, 2015. 64 pp.
    e-Print: arXiv:1502.02114 [astro-ph.CO] | PDF
  33. 92 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Quantum Field Theory and the Jones Polynomial
    Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). Sep 1988. 89 pp.
    Published in Commun.Math.Phys. 121 (1989) 351-399
    IASSNS-HEP-88-33
    DOI: 10.1007/BF01217730
  34. 91 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    The Inflationary Universe: A Possible Solution to the Horizon and Flatness Problems
    Alan H. Guth (SLAC). Jul 1980. 32 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev. D23 (1981) 347-356
    SLAC-PUB-2576
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.23.347
  35. 91 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Infinite Conformal Symmetry in Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory
    A.A. Belavin, Alexander M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.), A.B. Zamolodchikov (CERN & Landau Inst.). Feb 1984. 71 pp.
    Published in Nucl.Phys. B241 (1984) 333-380
    CERN-TH-3827
    DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(84)90052-X
  36. 90 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    A Large mass hierarchy from a small extra dimension
    Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.). May 1999. 9 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 3370-3373
    MIT-CTP-2860, PUPT-1860, BUHEP-99-9
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3370
    e-Print: hep-ph/9905221 | PDF
  37. 90 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Gravity duals of Lifshitz-like fixed points
    Shamit Kachru (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC), Xiao Liu (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Michael Mulligan (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC). Aug 2008. 18 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev. D78 (2008) 106005
    SLAC-PUB-13354, SU-ITP-08-16
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.106005
    e-Print: arXiv:0808.1725 [hep-th] | PDF
  38. 89 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    A Stress tensor for Anti-de Sitter gravity
    Vijay Balasubramanian (Harvard U. & UC, Santa Barbara), Per Kraus (Chicago U., EFI). Feb 1999. 19 pp.
    Published in Commun.Math.Phys. 208 (1999) 413-428
    HUTP-99-A002, EFI-99-6, NSF-ITP-98-132
    DOI: 10.1007/s002200050764
    e-Print: hep-th/9902121 | PDF
  39. 88 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Electric - magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
    N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). Jun 1994. 44 pp.
    Published in Nucl.Phys. B426 (1994) 19-52, Nucl.Phys. B430 (1994) 485-486
    RU-94-52, IASSNS-HEP-94-43
    DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(94)90124-4
    e-Print: hep-th/9407087 | PDF
  40. 87 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Black hole entropy is the Noether charge
    Robert M. Wald (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U.). Aug 5, 1993. 16 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev. D48 (1993) 3427-3431
    EFI-93-42
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.48.R3427
    e-Print: gr-qc/9307038 | PDF
  41. 87 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Viscosity in strongly interacting quantum field theories from black hole physics
    P. Kovtun, Dan T. Son, Andrei O. Starinets (Washington U., Seattle). Mar 2004. 8 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 94 (2005) 111601
    INT-PUB-04-09, UW-PT-04-04
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.111601
    e-Print: hep-th/0405231 | PDF
  42. 86 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Exact Results for Wilson Loops in Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories with Matter
    Anton Kapustin, Brian Willett, Itamar Yaakov (Caltech). Sep 2009. 32 pp.
    Published in JHEP 1003 (2010) 089
    CALT-68-2750
    DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2010)089
    e-Print: arXiv:0909.4559 [hep-th] | PDF
  43. 85 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Renormalization of Higher Derivative Quantum Gravity
    K.S. Stelle (Brandeis U.). Oct 1976. 51 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev. D16 (1977) 953-969
    PRINT-76-1059 (BRANDEIS)
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.16.953
  44. 85 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Double Field Theory
    Chris Hull (Imperial Coll., London), Barton Zwiebach (MIT, LNS). Apr 2009. 51 pp.
    Published in JHEP 0909 (2009) 099
    IMPERIAL-TP-2009-CH-02, MIT-CTP-4031
    DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/099
    e-Print: arXiv:0904.4664 [hep-th] | PDF
  45. 84 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Generalization of the Fierz-Pauli Action
    Claudia de Rham (Geneva U.), Gregory Gabadadze (New York U., CCPP & New York U.). Aug 2010. 18 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev. D82 (2010) 044020
    NYU-TH-06-13-10
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.044020
    e-Print: arXiv:1007.0443 [hep-th] | PDF
  46. 84 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Generalized gravitational entropy
    Aitor Lewkowycz (Princeton U.), Juan Maldacena (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). Apr 17, 2013. 29 pp.
    Published in JHEP 1308 (2013) 090
    DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2013)090
    e-Print: arXiv:1304.4926 [hep-th] | PDF
  47. 82 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Planck 2013 results. XXII. Constraints on inflation
    Planck Collaboration (P.A.R. Ade (Cardiff U.) et al.). Mar 20, 2013. 42 pp.
    Published in Astron.Astrophys. 571 (2014) A22
    CERN-PH-TH-2013-135
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201321569
    e-Print: arXiv:1303.5082 [astro-ph.CO] | PDF
  48. 81 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications
    Steven B. Giddings (Santa Barbara, KITP & UC, Santa Barbara), Shamit Kachru (Santa Barbara, KITP & Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC), Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP). May 2001. 35 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 106006
    SLAC-PUB-8807, NSF-ITP-01-37, SU-ITP-01-16
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.106006
    e-Print: hep-th/0105097 | PDF
  49. 81 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Bounding scalar operator dimensions in 4D CFT
    Riccardo Rattazzi (ITPP, Lausanne), Vyacheslav S. Rychkov (INFN, Pisa & Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore), Erik Tonni (INFN, Pisa & Pisa U.), Alessandro Vichi (ITPP, Lausanne). Jul 2008. 45 pp.
    Published in JHEP 0812 (2008) 031
    DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/031
    e-Print: arXiv:0807.0004 [hep-th] | PDF
  50. 81 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Detection of $B$-Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2
    BICEP2 Collaboration (P.A.R. Ade (Cardiff U.) et al.). Mar 16, 2014. 25 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 112 (2014) 24, 241101
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.241101
    e-Print: arXiv:1403.3985 [astro-ph.CO] | PDF
  51. 80 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Wilson loops in large N field theories
    Juan Martin Maldacena (Harvard U.). Mar 1998. 11 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 80 (1998) 4859-4862
    HUTP-98-A014
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4859
    e-Print: hep-th/9803002 | PDF
  52. 80 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters
    Planck Collaboration (P.A.R. Ade (Cardiff U.) et al.). Mar 20, 2013. 66 pp.
    Published in Astron.Astrophys. 571 (2014) A16
    CERN-PH-TH-2013-129
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201321591
    e-Print: arXiv:1303.5076 [astro-ph.CO] | PDF
  53. 79 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Irreversibility of the Flux of the Renormalization Group in a 2D Field Theory
    A.B. Zamolodchikov (Moscow, ITEP). 1986.
    Published in JETP Lett. 43 (1986) 730-732, Pisma Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz. 43 (1986) 565-567
  54. 79 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Superspace duality in low-energy superstrings
    W. Siegel (SUNY, Stony Brook). May 1993. 27 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev. D48 (1993) 2826-2837
    ITP-SB-93-28
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.48.2826
    e-Print: hep-th/9305073 | PDF
  55. 79 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Non-Gaussian features of primordial fluctuations in single field inflationary models
    Juan Martin Maldacena (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). Oct 2002. 38 pp.
    Published in JHEP 0305 (2003) 013
    DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/05/013
    e-Print: astro-ph/0210603 | PDF
  56. 78 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    A New Inflationary Universe Scenario: A Possible Solution of the Horizon, Flatness, Homogeneity, Isotropy and Primordial Monopole Problems
    Andrei D. Linde (Lebedev Inst.). Oct 1981. 15 pp.
    Published in Phys.Lett. B108 (1982) 389-393
    LEBEDEV-81-229
    DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(82)91219-9
    Conference: C81-10-13.1
  57. 78 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    (2+1)-Dimensional Gravity as an Exactly Soluble System
    Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). Sep 1988. 50 pp.
    Published in Nucl.Phys. B311 (1988) 46
    IASSNS-HEP-88-32
    DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(88)90143-5
  58. 78 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Some properties of Noether charge and a proposal for dynamical black hole entropy
    Vivek Iyer, Robert M. Wald (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U.). Mar 1994. 30 pp.
    Published in Phys.Rev. D50 (1994) 846-864
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.50.846
    e-Print: gr-qc/9403028 | PDF
  59. 78 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
    Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.). Jan 1996. 10 pp.
    Published in Phys.Lett. B379 (1996) 99-104
    HUTP-96-A002, RU-96-01
    DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00345-0
    e-Print: hep-th/9601029 | PDF
  60. 77 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Topologically Massive Gauge Theories
    Stanley Deser (Brandeis U.), R. Jackiw, S. Templeton (MIT, LNS). Dec 1981. 70 pp.
    Published in Annals Phys. 140 (1982) 372-411, Annals Phys. 185 (1988) 406, Annals Phys. 281 (2000) 409-449
    MIT-CTP-964
    DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(82)90164-6, 10.1006/aphy.2000.6013
  61. 77 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    AdS dual of the critical O(N) vector model
    I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov (Princeton U.). Oct 2002. 11 pp.
    Published in Phys.Lett. B550 (2002) 213-219
    PUPT-2053
    DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02980-5
    e-Print: hep-th/0210114 | PDF
  62. 75 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Cool horizons for entangled black holes
    Juan Maldacena (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Leonard Susskind (Stanford U., ITP & Stanford U., Phys. Dept.). Jun 3, 2013. 31 pp.
    Published in Fortsch.Phys. 61 (2013) 781-811
    DOI: 10.1002/prop.201300020
    e-Print: arXiv:1306.0533 [hep-th] | PDF
  63. 74 citations by hep-th eprints in 2015
    Minkowski space correlators in AdS / CFT correspondence: Recipe and applications
    Dam T. Son, Andrei O. Starinets (Washington U., Seattle). May 2002. 29 pp.
    Published in JHEP 0209 (2002) 042
    INT-PUB-02-34
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