Top Cited Articles during 1996 in hep-th

Top Cited Articles during 1996 in hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers during 1996 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. Remember the detailed warning about the accuracy of these counts.

Also note that the counts shown, and used in the rankings, are the counts as of Wed 7-Mar-2007. 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. The lists, however, will not update.

  1. 245
    Electric - magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B426:19-52,1994, Erratum-ibid.B430:485-486,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9407087]
    [1840 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 237
    String theory dynamics in various dimensions
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B443:85-126,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9503124]
    [1460 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 216
    Dirichlet Branes and Ramond-Ramond charges
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.75:4724-4727,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9510017]
    [1549 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 189
    Monopoles, duality and chiral symmetry breaking in N=2 supersymmetric QCD
    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B431:484-550,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9408099]
    [1337 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 179
    Unity of superstring dualities
    By C.M. Hull (Queen Mary, U. of London), P.K. Townsend (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B438:109-137,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9410167]
    [969 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 168
    Notes on D-branes
    By Joseph Polchinski, Shyamoli Chaudhuri, Clifford V. Johnson (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9602052]
    [467 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 153
    Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
    By Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B379:99-104,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9601029]
    [1094 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 151
    Evidence for F theory
    By Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B469:403-418,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9602022]
    [643 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 133
    Heterotic and type I string dynamics from eleven-dimensions
    By Petr Horava (Princeton U.), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B460:506-524,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9510209]
    [1614 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 114
    Bound states of strings and p-branes
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B460:335-350,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9510135]
    [969 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 98
    D-brane approach to black hole quantum mechanics
    By Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Juan M. Maldacena (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B472:591-610,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9602043]
    [440 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 97
    Exact results for N=2 compactifications of heterotic strings
    By Shamit Kachru, Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B450:69-89,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9505105]
    [368 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 95
    D-branes from M-branes
    By P.K. Townsend (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B373:68-75,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9512062]
    [382 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 92
    Massless black holes and conifolds in string theory
    By Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B451:96-108,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9504090]
    [432 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 90
    String solitons
    By M.J. Duff (Newton Inst. Math. Sci., Cambridge & Texas A-M), Ramzi R. Khuri (McGill U. & CERN), J.X. Lu (Texas A-M).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.259:213-326,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9412184]
    [535 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 90
    Small instantons in string theory
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B460:541-559,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9511030]
    [407 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 88
    Compactifications of F theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds. 1
    By David R. Morrison (Duke U.), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B473:74-92,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9602114]
    [292 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 85
    Some comments on string dynamics
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9507121]
    [359 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 85
    Evidence for heterotic - type I string duality
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B460:525-540,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9510169]
    [496 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 84
    Compactifications of F theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds. 2.
    By David R. Morrison (Duke U.), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B476:437-469,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9603161]
    [324 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 83
    Branes within branes
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9512077]
    [480 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 81
    The power of M theory
    By John H. Schwarz (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B367:97-103,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9510086]
    [271 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 77
    Counting states of near extremal black holes
    By Gary T. Horowitz, Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.77:2368-2371,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9602051]
    [255 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 73
    An SL(2,Z) multiplet of type IIB superstrings
    By John H. Schwarz (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B360:13-18,1995, Erratum-ibid.B364:252,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9508143]
    [435 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 73
    Solitonic strings and BPS saturated dyonic black holes
    By Mirjam Cvetic (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Arkady A. Tseytlin (Imperial Coll., London).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D53:5619-5633,1996, Erratum-ibid.D55:3907,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9512031]
    [211 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 71
    Evanescent black holes
    By Curtis G. Callan, Jr. (Princeton U.), Steven B. Giddings (UC, Santa Barbara), Jeffrey A. Harvey (Chicago U., EFI), Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D45:1005-1009,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9111056]
    [718 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 71
    Comments on string dynamics in six-dimensions
    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B471:121-134,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9603003]
    [229 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 70
    Target space duality in string theory
    By Amit Giveon (Hebrew U.), Massimo Porrati (New York U.), Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.244:77-202,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9401139]
    [571 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 70
    Electric - magnetic duality in supersymmetric nonAbelian gauge theories
    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B435:129-146,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9411149]
    [673 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 65
    Open p-branes
    By Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B383:44-47,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9512059]
    [386 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 65
    K3 Fibrations and heterotic type II string duality
    By A. Klemm, W. Lerche, P. Mayr (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B357:313-322,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9506112]
    [208 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 64
    Five-branes and M theory on an orbifold
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B463:383-397,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9512219]
    [189 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 63
    The eleven-dimensional supermembrane revisited
    By P.K. Townsend (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B350:184-187,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9501068]
    [475 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 62
    Evidence for heterotic / heterotic duality
    By M.J. Duff (Texas A-M), R. Minasian (CERN), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B465:413-438,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9601036]
    [157 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 61
    Second quantized mirror symmetry
    By Sergio Ferrara (CERN & UCLA), Jeffrey A. Harvey (Chicago U., EFI), Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B361:59-65,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9505162]
    [234 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 61
    Internal structure of black holes
    By Finn Larsen (Princeton U.), Frank Wilczek (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B375:37-42,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9511064]
    [117 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 60
    Simple singularities and N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
    By A. Klemm, W. Lerche, S. Yankielowicz (CERN), S. Theisen (Munich U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B344:169-175,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9411048]
    [372 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 59
    D strings on D manifolds
    By M. Bershadsky, C. Vafa (Harvard U.), V. Sadov (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B463:398-414,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9510225]
    [194 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 59
    Consistency conditions for orientifolds and d manifolds
    By Eric G. Gimon (UC, Santa Barbara), Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D54:1667-1676,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9601038]
    [444 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 58
    Dual string pairs with N=1 and N=2 supersymmetry in four-dimensions
    By Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.46:225-247,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9507050]
    [198 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 58
    Statistical entropy of four-dimensional extremal black holes
    By Juan M. Maldacena (Princeton U.), Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.77:428-429,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9603060]
    [208 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 58
    Dyon - monopole bound states, selfdual harmonic forms on the multi - monopole moduli space, and SL(2,Z) invariance in string theory
    By Ashoke Sen (Tata Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B329:217-221,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9402032]
    [287 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 57
    Nonperturbative results on the point particle limit of N=2 heterotic string compactifications
    By Shamit Kachru (Harvard U.), Albrecht Klemm, Wolfgang Lerche, Peter Mayr (CERN), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B459:537-558,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9508155]
    [218 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 57
    Algebras, BPS states, and strings
    By Jeffrey A. Harvey (Chicago U., EFI), Gregory W. Moore (Yale U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B463:315-368,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9510182]
    [214 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 57
    F theory and orientifolds
    By Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B475:562-578,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9605150]
    [285 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 57
    Strong - weak coupling duality in four-dimensional string theory
    By Ashoke Sen (Tata Inst.).
    Published in:Int.J.Mod.Phys.A9:3707-3750,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9402002]
    [344 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 57
    Exact results on the space of vacua of four-dimensional SUSY gauge theories
    By Nathan Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:6857-6863,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9402044]
    [435 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 57
    Entropy of 4-D extremal black holes
    By Clifford V. Johnson (Santa Barbara, KITP), Ramzi R. Khuri (CERN & McGill U.), Robert C. Myers (McGill U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B378:78-86,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9603061]
    [175 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 56
    Reheating after inflation
    By Lev Kofman (Hawaii U.), Andrei D. Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Alexei A. Starobinsky (Kyoto U., Yukawa Inst., Uji & Landau Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.73:3195-3198,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9405187]
    [536 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 56
    Intersecting M-branes as four-dimensional black holes
    By Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton U.), A.A. Tseytlin (Imperial Coll., London).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B475:179-192,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9604166]
    [165 Total citations in HEP]
  51. 56
    Lectures on supersymmetric gauge theories and electric - magnetic duality
    By Kenneth A. Intriligator, N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.45BC:1-28,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9509066]
    [424 Total citations in HEP]
  52. 56
    One Loop Threshold Effects in String Unification
    By Vadim S. Kaplunovsky (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B307:145,1988, Erratum-ibid.B382:436,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9205068]
    [503 Total citations in HEP]
  53. 56
    D-branes and spinning black holes
    By J.C. Breckenridge, Robert C. Myers (McGill U.), A.W. Peet (Princeton U.), C. Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B391:93-98,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9602065]
    [261 Total citations in HEP]