Robert Finkelstein

Professor Emeritus
TEP
Office: PAB 4-742
Phone: 310-825-3635
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Educational Background

Ph.D., Harvard, 1941

Research Interest

Prof. Finkelstein has been applying quantum groups to investigate weak deformations of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.

Selected Publications

• "A Knot Model Suggested by the Standard Electroweak Theory," Int. J. Mod. Phys. A20, 6487 (2005).
• "Masses and Interaction of q Fermionic Knots," with A.C. Cadavid, Int.J. Mod. Phys. A21, 4269 (2006).
• "The Elementary Particles as Quantum Knots in Electroweak Theory," Int. J. Mod. Phys. A27, 4467 (2007).
• "Knots and Preons," Int. J. Mod. Phys. A24, 2307 (2009).
• "Colored Preons," arXiv: 0901.1687.
• "A Possible SLq(2) Substructure of the Standard Model," arXiv: 0912.3552 v.2.
• "Flavor States of the Knot Model," arXiv: 1011.0764 v.3.
• "Solitonic Models Based on Quantum Groups and the Standard Model," arXiv: 1011.2545 v.1.
• "On the Deformation Parameter in SLq(2) Models of the Elementary Particles," arXiv: 1108.0438 v.1.

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