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19932023
most citedThe Ekpyrotic Universe: Colliding Branes and the Origin of the Hot Big Bang

1.6k citations · 12.9k across the 132 of their papers we have counts for

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134 papers

hep-ph2023★ 5 cited

A Minimal Explanation of the Primordial Cosmological Perturbations

Neil Turok, Latham Boyle

We outline a new explanation for the primordial density perturbations in cosmology. Dimension zero fields are a minimal addition to the Standard Model of particle physics: if the H…

gr-qc2022★ 16 cited

Thermodynamic solution of the homogeneity, isotropy and flatness puzzles (and a clue to the cosmological constant)

Latham Boyle, Neil Turok

We obtain the analytic solution of the Friedmann equation for fully realistic cosmologies including radiation, non-relativistic matter, a cosmological constant and arbitrary sp…

hep-ph2022

The Big Bang as a Mirror: a Solution of the Strong CP Problem

Latham Boyle, Martin Teuscher, Neil Turok

We argue that the Big Bang can be understood as a type of mirror. We show how reflecting boundary conditions for spinors and higher spin fields are fixed by local Lorentz and gauge…

hep-th2022★ 23 cited

Existence of real time quantum path integrals

Job Feldbrugge, Neil Turok

Many interesting physical theories have analytic classical actions. We show how Feynman's path integral may be defined non-perturbatively, for such theories, without a Wick rotatio…

hep-th2022★ 6 cited

Gravitational entropy and the flatness, homogeneity and isotropy puzzles

Neil Turok, Latham Boyle

We suggest a new explanation for the observed large scale flatness, homogeneity and isotropy of the universe. The basic ingredients are elementary and well-known, namely Einstein's…

hep-th2021★ 3 cited

Cancelling the vacuum energy and Weyl anomaly in the standard model with dimension-zero scalar fields

Latham Boyle, Neil Turok

The standard model is a remarkably consistent and complete quantum field theory but its coupling to gravity and the Higgs field remain problematic, as reflected in the cosmological…