2026 David Kutasov: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	77	3250	3090	1541	1435	156	19441

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Physics

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156

19441

Overview

David Kutasov is a researcher affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their work primarily falls within the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, with a specific focus on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. There are also contributions in Epidemiology and Nephrology.

The main topics addressed by Kutasov center on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories. Additional areas of study include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Nonlinear Waves and Solitons, as well as research related to Neuroendocrine Tumor Advances and Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments.

Kutasov's recent scholarly output includes research papers published across several notable venues. These include:

"A solvable irrelevant deformation of AdS3/CFT2" (2023), OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
"Asymptotically Free AdS₃/CFT₂" (2022), OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
"$J\overline{T}$ deformed CFT₂ and string theory" (2022), OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
"$$ T\overline{T} $$, black holes and negative strings" (2020), Journal of High Energy Physics
"$$ T\overline{T},J\overline{T},T\overline{J} $$ partition sums from string theory" (2022), OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

The frequent co-authors contributing to Kutasov's work include:

Amit Giveon (19 collaborations)
Soumangsu Chakraborty (12 collaborations)
Bruno Balthazar (7 collaborations)
Jinwei Chu (5 collaborations)
Akikazu Hashimoto (5 collaborations)

Kutasov's publications are often featured in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of High Energy Physics, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Nuclear Physics B, and HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). The number of contributions includes nine at arXiv, eight at the Journal of High Energy Physics, and six with OSTI OAI.

Best Publications

comments on string theory on $AdS_3$

Amit Giveon;David Kutasov;Nathan Seiberg

698
Citations
Brane dynamics and gauge theory

Amit Giveon;David Kutasov;David Kutasov

597
Citations
Entanglement as a probe of confinement

Igor R. Klebanov;David Kutasov;Arvind Murugan

557
Citations
Some exact results on tachyon condensation in string field theory

David Kutasov;Marcos Marino;Gregory W. Moore

521
Citations
Branes and N = 1 duality in string theory

Shmuel Elitzur;Amit Giveon;David Kutasov

461
Citations
A NEW HAT FOR THE c=1 MATRIX MODEL

M. R. Douglas;M. R. Douglas;Igor R. Klebanov;D. Kutasov;J. Maldacena

443
Citations
Linear dilatons, NS5-branes and holography

Ofer Aharony;Micha Berkooz;Nathan Seiberg;David Kutasov

434
Citations
Remarks on Tachyon Condensation in Superstring Field Theory

David Kutasov;Marcos Marino;Gregory W. Moore

430
Citations
Little string theory in a double scaling limit

Amit Giveon;Amit Giveon;David Kutasov;David Kutasov

417
Citations
Linear Dilatons, NS5-branes and Holography

Ofer Aharony;Micha Berkooz;David Kutasov;Nathan Seiberg

414
Citations
Seiberg duality in Chern–Simons theory

Amit Giveon;David Kutasov

374
Citations
More comments on string theory on AdS(3)

David Kutasov;Nathan Seiberg

370
Citations
A matrix model for the two-dimensional black hole

Vladimir Kazakov;Ivan K. Kostov;David Kutasov

309
Citations
$ \mathrm{T}\overline{\mathrm{T}} $ and LST

Amit Giveon;Nissan Itzhaki;David Kutasov

303
Citations
Brane dynamics and N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theory

S. Elitzur;A. Giveon;D. Kutasov;E. Rabinovici

300
Citations
More Comments on String Theory on AdS_3

David Kutasov;Nathan Seiberg

292
Citations
Number of degrees of freedom, density of states and tachyons in string theory and CFT

David Kutasov;Nathan Seiberg

286
Citations
On Duality in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

D. Kutasov;A. Schwimmer

281
Citations
A comment on duality in N = 1 supersymmetric non-abelian gauge theories

D. Kutasov

276
Citations
On the relevance of tachyons

J. A. Harvey;D. Kutasov;E. J. Martinec

262
Citations