Publications (50)
Relativity theory does not imply that the future already exists: a counterexample
Rafael D. Sorkin
A Historical Perspective on Cancer
Rafael D. Sorkin
An energy bound deduced from the vanishing of the radiation reaction force during uniform acceleration
Rafael D. Sorkin
A Bell Inequality Analog in Quantum Measure Theory
David Craig, Fay Dowker, Joe Henson +3
Onset of the Asymptotic Regime for Finite Orders
Joe Henson, David P. Rideout, Rafael D. Sorkin +1
Scalar Field Theory on a Causal Set in Histories Form
Rafael D. Sorkin
Expressing entropy globally in terms of (4D) field-correlations
Rafael D. Sorkin
1983 paper on entanglement entropy: "On the Entropy of the Vacuum outside a Horizon"
Rafael D. Sorkin
Energy extremality in the presence of a black hole
Rafael D. Sorkin, Madhavan Varadarajan
Big extra dimensions make Lambda too small
Rafael D. Sorkin
Initial conditions and unitarity in unimodular quantum cosmology
Alan Daughton, Jorma Louko, Rafael D. Sorkin
"Observables" in causal set cosmology
Graham Brightwell, H. Fay Dowker, Raquel S. Garcia +2
Quantum Mechanics as Quantum Measure Theory
Rafael D. Sorkin
A Quantitative Occam's Razor
Rafael D. Sorkin
Brownian motion at absolute zero
Supurna Sinha, Rafael D. Sorkin
Geon Statistics and UIR's of the Mapping Class Group
Rafael D. Sorkin, Sumati Surya
Occam's razor meets WMAP
Joao Magueijo, Rafael D. Sorkin
Is the cosmological "constant" a nonlocal quantum residue of discreteness of the causal set type?
Rafael D. Sorkin
General Covariance and the "Problem of Time" in a Discrete Cosmology
Graham Brightwell, H. Fay Dowker, Joe Henson +2
A Distinguished Vacuum State for a Quantum Field in a Curved Spacetime: Formalism, Features, and Cosmology
Niayesh Afshordi, Siavash Aslanbeigi, Rafael D. Sorkin
Quantum Dynamics without the Wave Function
Rafael D. Sorkin
An exercise in "anhomomorphic logic"
Rafael D. Sorkin
Indecomposable Ideals in Incidence Algebras
Rafael D. Sorkin
Generalized Causal Set d'Alembertians
Siavash Aslanbeigi, Mehdi Saravani, Rafael D. Sorkin
Complex actions in two-dimensional topology change
Jorma Louko, Rafael D. Sorkin
How Wrinkled is the Surface of a Black Hole?
Rafael D. Sorkin
Toward a "fundamental theorem of quantal measure theory"
Rafael D. Sorkin
The Statistical Mechanics of Black Hole Thermodynamics
Rafael D. Sorkin
Forks in the Road, on the Way to Quantum Gravity
Rafael D. Sorkin
An Analysis of the Representations of the Mapping Class Group of a Multi-Geon Three-Manifold
Rafael D. Sorkin, Sumati Surya
Causal Sets: Discrete Gravity (Notes for the Valdivia Summer School)
Rafael D. Sorkin
A Parallelizable Implicit Evolution Scheme for Regge Calculus
John W. Barrett, Mark Galassi, Warner A. Miller +3
Hilbert Spaces from Path Integrals
Fay Dowker, Steven Johnston, Rafael D. Sorkin
When is an area law not an area law?
Anushya Chandran, Chris Laumann, Rafael D. Sorkin
Ten Theses on Black Hole Entropy
Rafael D. Sorkin
Indications of causal set cosmology
Rafael D. Sorkin
The Disjointed Thermodynamics of Rotating Black Holes With a NUT Twist
A. M. Ghezelbash, R. B. Mann, Rafael D. Sorkin
Is the spacetime metric Euclidean rather than Lorentzian?
Rafael D. Sorkin
Two Topics concerning Black Holes: Extremality of the Energy, Fractality of the Horizon
Rafael D. Sorkin
Gravitational action with null boundaries
Luis Lehner, Robert C. Myers, Eric Poisson +1
A Specimen of Theory Construction from Quantum Gravity
Rafael D. Sorkin
Quantum Measure Theory and its Interpretation
Rafael D. Sorkin
Does a Quantum Particle Know its Own Energy?
Rafael D. Sorkin
Quantum Gravity Phenomenology, Lorentz Invariance and Discreteness
Fay Dowker, Joe Henson, Rafael D. Sorkin
Does Locality Fail at Intermediate Length-Scales
Rafael D. Sorkin
Light, Links and Causal Sets
Rafael D. Sorkin
Logic is to the quantum as geometry is to gravity
Rafael D. Sorkin
Impossible Measurements on Quantum Fields
Rafael D. Sorkin
To What Type of Logic Does the "Tetralemma" Belong?
Rafael D. Sorkin
Discreteness without symmetry breaking: a theorem
Luca Bombelli, Joe Henson, Rafael D. Sorkin