My Erdős Number


My Erdős number is at most 5. Here is a route:
  1. "Mean field calculation of Ne, Mg and Si nuclei at N=20 with the separable monopole interaction", P. D. Stevenson, J. Rikovska Stone and M. R. Strayer, Phys. Lett. B 545, 291 (2002) [ link ]
     
  2. "Monopole collective motion in helium and oxygen nuclei", J. S. Wu, M. R. Strayer and M. Baranger, Phys. Rev. C 60, 044302 (1999) [ link ]
     
  3. "4th-Order Vacuum Polarization", M. Baranger, F. J. Dyson and E. E. Salpeter, Phys. Rev. 88, 680 (1952) [ link ]
     
  4. "Partitions and Indefinite Quadratic-Forms", G. E. Andrews, F. J. Dyson and D. Hickerson, Inventiones Mathematicae, 91, 391 (1988) [ link ]
     
  5. "A Problem of Leo Moser about Repeated Distances on the Sphere", P. Erdős, D. Hickerson and J. Pach, Amer. Math. Monthly 96, 569 (1989) [ link ]

 
Here is my original attempt, based on linking myself to my colleague Richard Sear, who had already worked out his number to be at most 4. My Sear number is 4, so this gave me an upper bound for my Erdős number of 8.
  1. "Shape evolution in the neutron-rich tungsten region", P. D. Stevenson, M. P. Brine, Zs. Podolyák, P. H. Regan, P. M. Walker and J. Rikovska Stone, Phys. Rev. C 72, 047303 (2005) [ link ]
     
  2. "Undergraduate courses with an integral research year", A. S. Clough and P. H. Regan, European Journal of Physics, 24, 321 (2003) [ link ]
     
  3. "Case II diffusion in the PVC and acetone system", K. L. Perry, P. J. McDonald and A. S. Clough, Magnetic Resonance Imaging 12, 217 (2004) [ link ]
     
  4. "Surface flux limited diffusion of solvent into polymer", P. J. McDonald, J. Godward, R. Sackin and R. P. Sear, Macromolecules 34, 1048 (2001) [ link ]
     
  5. "The effect of chain stiffness on the phase behaviour of isolated homopolymers", J. P. K. Doye, R. P. Sear and D. Frenkel, J. Chem. Phys. 108, 2134 (1998) [ link ]
     
  6. "The effect of the range of the potential on the structures of clusters", J. P. K. Doye, D. J. Wales and R. S. Berry, J. Chem. Phys. 103, 4234 (1995) [ link ]
     
  7. "Thermodynamics in Finite Time I: The Step Carnot Cycle", B. Andresen, R. S. Berry, A. Nitzan, and P. Salamon, Phys. Rev. A, 15, 2086-2093 (1977) [ link ]
     
  8. "The solution to a problem of Grünbaum", P. Salamon and P. Erdős, Can. Math. Bulletin, 31, 129 (1988) [ link ]