Vladimir Alekseevich Belinski (last name is also spelled Belinsky, russian: Владимир Алексеевич Белинский; born 26 March 1941) is a Russian and
Italian
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theoretical physicist involved in research in
cosmology
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and
general relativity
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. He worked at
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
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from 1968 to 1989 and got his
Habilitation
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(
Doctor of Sciences
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) degree at this Institute in 1980. As of 2016, he holds the permanent professor position at
International Network of the Centers for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRANet), Italy.
Belinski contributed to the editing of some chapters in
Landau
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and
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's
course of theoretical physics
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for volume 2. One of his most notable scientific contributions is
BKL conjecture
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(Belinski—
Khalatnikov
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—
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conjecture) on the behavior of generic solutions of
Einstein field equations
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near a
cosmological singularity
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. He co-invented the
Belinski-Zakharov transform in 1978 showing that black holes are a special example of gravitational solitons. Another his notable result (obtained in 1985—1987 together with L. Grischuk,
I. Khalatnikov and
Ya. Zeldovich) is discovery of the "Inflationary Attractor". This is the unique solution of the gravitational equations with
massive scalar field
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which solution has maximal degree of
inflation
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and attract the majority of all other solutions forcing them to have the prolonged inflationary stages.
Awards
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Landau Prize
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of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1974) "For set of works on singularities in Relativistic Cosmology"
Marcel Grossmann Award(2012) "For the discovery of a general solution of the Einstein equations with a cosmological singularity of an oscillatory chaotic character known as the
BKL singularity
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Notes
References
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Publication list on arxiv
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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology faculty
Russian relativity theorists
Scientists from Moscow
Living people
1941 births
Italian relativity theorists