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Vesselin Petkov (2024), Seven Fundamental Concepts in Spacetime Physics, 2nd ed., SpringerBriefs in Physics (Springer, Heidelberg 2024).

Calin Galeriu (2023), "The algebraic origin of the Doppler factor in the Liénard-Wiechert potentials," European Journal of Physics 44, 035203 (2023). DOI 10.1088/1361-6404/acc991

Second expanded edition (2023) of The Origin of Spacetime Physics (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2023). With a Foreword by Abhay Ashtekar. Edited by Vesselin Petkov.

Vesselin Petkov (2023), "Relativistic Mass is an Experimental Fact," Minkowski Institute Physics Journal, 10 January 2023

Ajay Kumar Sharma and Murli Manohar Verma (2022), Effect of the modified gravity on the large-scale structure formation, Astrophys. J. (ApJ), 934 (1), 13, (2022).

Vipin Kumar Sharma and Murli Manohar Verma (2022), Unified f(R) gravity at local scales, Eur. Phys. J. C (EPJC), 82, 400, ( 2022).

Ajay Kumar Sharma and Murli Manohar Verma (2022), Power-law Inflation in the f(R) Gravity, Astrophys. J. (ApJ), 926 (1), 29, (2022).

V. K. Sharma, B. K. Yadav and M. M. Verma (2021), Light deflection angle through velocity profile of galaxies in f(R) model, Eur. Phys. J. C (EPJC), 81, 109, (2021).

Calin Galeriu (2021), "A derivation of the Doppler factor in the Lienard-Wiechert potentials," European Journal of Physics 42, 055203 (2021).

Calin Galeriu (2021), "The geometrical origin of the Doppler factor in the Lienard-Wiechert potentials," European Journal of Physics 42, 055204 (2021).

Vesselin Petkov (2021), Seven Fundamental Concepts in Spacetime Physics, SpringerBriefs in Physics (Springer, Heidelberg 2021).

2020 - Two important collections of papers edited by V. Petkov and published by the Minkowski Institute Press:

Hermann Minkowski, Spacetime: Minkowski's papers on Spacetime Physics (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2020). With an Introduction (55 pages) by V. Petkov.

The Origin of Spacetime Physics (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2020). With a Foreword by Abhay Ashtekar.

Vesselin Petkov (2020), "Note on inertial forces, inertial energy and the origin of inertia," Minkowski Institute Physics Journal, 30 October 2020

V. K. Sharma, B. K. Yadav and M. M. Verma, Extended galactic rotational velocity profiles in f(R) gravity background, Eur. Phys. J. C (EPJC), 80, 619, (2020).

B. K. Yadav and M. M. Verma, Dark matter as scalaron in f(R) gravity models, J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. (JCAP),10, 052, (2019).

Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica (2019),"A representation of the wave function on the three-dimensional space," Phys. Rev. A 100, 042115, October 21, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.042115
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.12229

Louis Vervoort (2019), "Probability Theory as a Physical Theory Points to Superdeterminism", Entropy 2019, 21(9), 848 (1-13), cf. https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/9/848

Calin Galeriu (2019), "Electric charge in hyperbolic motion: the special conformal transformation solution," European Journal of Physics 40, 065203 (2019).

Vesselin Petkov (2019), October 19, 2019: new printing of Inertia and Gravitation: From Aristotle's Natural Motion to Geodesic Worldlines in Curved Spacetime (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2019); an Appendix "On Relativistic Mass'' is included, some notes and references are added and noticed typos are corrected.

Louis Vervoort (2018), "Are Hidden-Variable Theories for Pilot-Wave Systems Possible?", Foundations of Physics (2018) Volume 48-7, pp 803-826

Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica (2018),"Revisiting the Black Hole Entropy and the Information Paradox," Advances in High Energy Physics, Volume 2018, Article ID 4130417, pp. 1-16 https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/4130417

Patrick M. Duerr (2018), "It ain't necessarily so: Gravitational waves and energy transport," Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.08.005

Patrick M. Duerr (2018), "Fantastic Beasts and where (not) to find them: Local gravitational energy and energy conservation in general relativity," Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.07.002

B. K. Yadav and M. M. Verma (2018), Dynamics of f(R) gravity models and asymmetry of time, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D (IJMPD), 27, 1850002, (2018).

B. K. Yadav and M. M. Verma, Observational role of dark matter in f(R) models for structure formation, Int. J. Mod. Phys. (CS), 46, 1860045, (2018), presented at the 21st Particles and Nuclei International Conference, September 1-5, 2017, Beijing, China.

M. M. Verma, On a possibility of the gravitational wave detection at the high energy colliders, Int. J. Mod. Phys. (CS), 46, 1860059, (2018), presented at the 21st Particles and Nuclei International Conference, September 1-5, 2017, Beijing, China.

Vesselin Petkov (2018), "On Relativistic Mass," Appendix included in a volume with a new publication of five works by Einstein - A. Einstein, Relativity (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2018)

Petar Pavlovic (2018), On Quantum Anomalous Effects in Electrodynamics of the Early Universe (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2018)

Anguel S. Stefanov (2017), "About the Substantival Nature of Spacetime" In: A. S. Stefanov, M. Giovanelli (Eds), General Relativity 1916 - 2016. Selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the publication of General Relativity, 30 May - 2 June 2016, Golden Sands, Varna, Bulgaria (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2017), pp. 59-66.

Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica (2017), "The meaning of spacetime singularities" In: A. S. Stefanov, M. Giovanelli (Eds), General Relativity 1916 - 2016. Selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the publication of General Relativity, 30 May - 2 June 2016, Golden Sands, Varna, Bulgaria (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2017), pp. 67-78.

Calin Galeriu (2017), "Electric charge in hyperbolic motion: the early history" Archive for History of Exact Sciences 71, 363 (2017).

B. K. Yadav and M. M. Verma(2017), Cosmological wheel of time: a classical perspective of f(R) gravity, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D (IJMPD), 26,1750183, (2017).

Vesselin Petkov (2017), "Could Minkowski have discovered the cause of gravitation before Einstein?" In: A. S. Stefanov, M. Giovanelli (Eds), General Relativity 1916 - 2016. Selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the publication of General Relativity, 30 May - 2 June 2016, Golden Sands, Varna, Bulgaria (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2017), pp. 33-50.

Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica (2016),"The Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker Big Bang Singularities are Well Behaved," International Journal of Theoretical Physics, January 2016, Volume 55, Issue 1, pp 71-80 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-015-2634-y

Louis Vervoort (2016), "No-go theorems face background-based theories for quantum mechanics" (2016), Foundations of Physics, Volume 46, Issue 4, pp. 458-472

Anguel S. Stefanov (2016),"Can the "Illusion" of the Flowing Time be Explained?" The Philosophical Forum (2016) Volume 47, Issue 2, pp. 207-221 https://doi.org/10.1111/phil.12115

Vesselin Petkov (2016), "Is Gravitation a Physical Interaction or just Curved-Spacetime Geometry?" or download the PDF file here

Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica (2015), Singular General Relativity (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2015)

Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica (2014),"Metric dimensional reduction at singularities with implications to Quantum Gravity," Annals of Physics, Volume 347, August 2014, Pages 74-91 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2014.04.027

Vesselin Petkov (2014), "Physics as Spacetime Geometry" in A. Ashtekar, V. Petkov (eds), Springer Handbook of Spacetime (Springer, Heidelberg 2014), pp. 141-163 (the last Section discusses a phenomenon that often causes confusion - propagation of light in non-inertial reference frames)

Louis Vervoort (2013), "Bell's Theorem: Two Neglected Solutions", Foundations of Physics (2013) Volume 43, pp 769-791

Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica (2013),"On the Weyl curvature hypothesis," Annals of Physics, Volume 338, November 2013, Pages 186-194 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2013.08.002

Vesselin Petkov (2012), "Can Gravity be Quantized?" in V. Petkov, Inertia and Gravitation: From Aristotle's Natural Motion to Geodesic Worldlines in Curved Spacetime (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2012), Appendix C

Vesselin Petkov (2012), "On Inertial Forces, Inertial Energy and the Origin of Inertia," in V. Petkov, Inertia and Gravitation: From Aristotle's Natural Motion to Geodesic Worldlines in Curved Spacetime (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2012), Appendix B

Stephen N. Lyle, Self-Force and Inertia. Old Light on New Ideas (Springer, Heidelberg 2011)

Vesselin Petkov (2009), Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime, 2nd ed. (Springer, Heidelberg 2009). Expanded and updated edition of the 2005 publication

Vesselin Petkov (2009) Accelerating spaceships paradox and physical meaning of length contraction; arXiv:0903.5128 [physics.class-ph]

Stephen N. Lyle (2008), Uniformly Accelerating Charged Particles. A Threat to the Equivalence Principle (Springer, Heidelberg 2008)

Vesselin Petkov (2007), "On the Reality of Minkowski Space." Foundations of Physics, 37 (2007) pp. 1499-1502 (or download the PDF file here)

Louis Vervoort (2000), "Bell's Theorem and Nonlinear Systems" (2000), Europhys. Lett. 50 p. 142

Anastas H. Anastassov (1993), Self-Contained Phase-Space Formulation of Quantum Mechanics as Statistics of Virtual Particles, Annuaire de l'Universite de Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski," Faculte de Physique, Tome 81, 1993, pp. 135-163

In the paper Anastassov presents the novel idea of 4-atomism - discreteness in both space and time, more precisely, discreteness in spacetime. This seems to be a promising research direction, because it questions a fundamental continuity - continuous existence in time - at the very heart of quantum physics.

Then the probabilistic behavior of the quantum object may be represented as a manifestation of a probabilistic distribution of the quantum object itself in the forever given spacetime: an electron, for instance, can be thought of as an ensemble of the points of its disintegrated worldline, which are scattered all over the spacetime region where the electron wavefunction is different from zero. Then, in the ordinary three-dimensional language, an electron would be an ensemble of constituents which appear-disappear ~10^20 times per second (the Compton frequency); and, obviously, such a "single" quantum object can pass simultaneously through all slits at its disposal in the double-slit experiments with single electrons and photons.

Had Minkowski lived longer he might have described such a probabilistic spacetime structure by the mystical expression "predetermined probabilistic phenomena."

Vesselin Petkov (2023), "Gravity Is Not a Force or Field. 4D Minkowski Spacetime and Gravity" - an interview on the nature of gravitation - that gravitation is not a physical interaction, but merely a manifestation of the non-Euclidean geometry of spacetime, 7 May 2023. A summary of the interview is here.

Vesselin Petkov (2022), "Does Time Exist?" - an interview on the nature of spacetime (with an emphasis on the fact that the experiments, which confirmed the kinematic relativistic effects, are impossible in a three-dimensional world) and on how the consciousness appears to create the illusions of time flow and free will, 7 November 2022. A summary of the interview is here.

M. M. Verma (2018), "The rights and wrongs of the blind watchers," Revelation, 2 (1), 46, (2018). Web link

Vesselin Petkov (2016), "The Ultimate Judge: Time does not Flow since it is the Fourth Dimension of the Real World" - invited article for the German student Magazine Cog!to, June 2016