Quasipaper is an invented term for a recreational scientific article that tests or extends some aspect of the author’s understanding in the context of established science.
They could wind up being published articles, but their primary purpose is to test and extend points of technical competence and/or to scope out new research questions.
They are the equivalent of an artist’s study, sketches for later work and refinement.
The series of quasipapers hosted here are released under Creative Commons with a couple of additional conditions:
- please attribute the author if you make derivative works
- please notify the author if you submit derivative works to an academic journal
- the author reserves the right to submit works to an academic journal at any time
The author is open to collaborative research, should some workers wish to pick up any of the questions raised in a quasipaper. Just email the author.
Quasipaper is an invented word reflecting the purpose of such articles to stimulate further research. It is inspired by the life and works of Nikolay Nikolaevich Bogolyubov, the legendary Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and theoretical physicist.
Bogolyubov contributed greatly to theoretical physics, particularly in the fields of statistical mechanics, condensed matter physics and the connections between classical and quantum physics. All of which are areas of my own research interest.
He left us the legacy of the term quasiparticle, an extraordinarily powerful concept with deep roots in the symmetries of many particles and their emergent behaviour.
Hardly a day seems to go by without a newly named quasiparticle!
Quasipapers on arXiv
UM-P-91/45: The Classical Schroedinger Equation
UM-P-91/47: On Quantization, the Generalized Schrödinger Equation and Classical Mechanics