Research highlights

Synthesis of mathematical methods and applications in physics of the very early Universe and relativistic cosmology

Supervisor’s research interests

• Mathematical methods of quantum field theory and quantum gravity
• Quantum cosmology and physics of the early quantum Universe
• Inflation theory
• Dark energy problem

Main publications

• A. O. Barvinsky, D. Blas, M. Herrero-Valea, S. M. Sibiryakov, and C. F. Steinwachs, Renormalization of Hořava gravity, Phys. Rev. D 93, 064022
• A. O. Barvinsky, A. Yu. Kamenshchik, C. Kiefer, A. A. Starobinsky and C. Steinwachs, Asymptotic freedom in inflationary cosmology with a non-minimally coupled Higgs field, JCAP 12(2009)003
• A. O. Barvinsky, A. Yu. Kamenshchik, C. Kiefer, A. A. Starobinsky and C. Steinwachs, Higgs boson, renormalization group, and naturalness in cosmology, EPJC 72 (2012) 2219
• A. O. Barvinsky, A. Yu. Kamenshchik, T. Vardanyan, Comment about the vanishing of the vacuum energy in the Wess-Zumino model, Physics Letters B (2018)
• A. O. Barvinsky, A. Yu. Kamenshchik, Darkness without dark matter and energy -- generalized unimodular gravity, Physics Letters B (2017)