Níck

theoretical physicist

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Publications

These are my works in the academic literature. The ones listed here include: peer-reviewed publications (published or accepted for publication in journals), preprints, and occasionally unpublished writings that have been cited at least once.

• Níckolas de Aguiar Alves. “Lectures on the Bondi–Metzner–Sachs group and related topics in infrared physics”. Eur. Phys. J. C 86.5, 507 (2026). arXiv: 2504.12521 [gr-qc]. [INSPIRE].
• Níckolas de Aguiar Alves. “Physics as a branch of poetry”. Am. J. Phys. (2026). [Accepted manuscript]. In press.
• Caio César Rodrigues Evangelista and Níckolas de Aguiar Alves. “Using thermodynamics to learn gravitational wave physics”. Eur. J. Phys. 47.2, 025604 (2026). arXiv: 2602.21261 [gr-qc]. [INSPIRE].
• Níckolas de Aguiar Alves and André G. S. Landulfo. “Sound as a gauge theory and its infrared triangle”. arXiv: 2512.15796 [hep-th]. [INSPIRE]. Pre-published.
• Níckolas de Aguiar Alves and André G. S. Landulfo. “Null infinity as a Killing horizon”. Phys. Rev. D 112.6, 065017 (2025). arXiv: 2504.12514 [gr-qc]. [INSPIRE].
• Níckolas de Aguiar Alves and Bruno Arderucio Costa. “The Measure of a Mass”. arXiv: 2503.18963 [gr-qc]. [INSPIRE]. Pre-published.
• Níckolas de Aguiar Alves, André G. S. Landulfo, and Bruno Arderucio Costa. “Positive mass in general relativity without energy conditions”. Phys. Rev. D 111.4, 044027 (2025). arXiv: 2408.00154 [gr-qc]. [INSPIRE].
• Níckolas de Aguiar Alves. “Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: An Introduction”. 2023. [INSPIRE]. Unpublished.
• Níckolas de Aguiar Alves. “Nonperturbative Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime”. MSc thesis. Santo André, Brazil: Federal University of ABC, 2023. arXiv: 2305.17453 [gr-qc]. [INSPIRE].