Publications

Papers and preprints, grouped by theme

Journal articles are taken from my normalised CV and carry a DOI. Preprints come from INSPIRE-HEP and arXiv. Each entry links to the publisher record and, where one exists, to the arXiv version. Other indexes: ORCID, INSPIRE, arXiv, Google Scholar.

Doctoral thesis

1. Contributions to Potential Scattering. A. Rivero. Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Zaragoza (1995); revised English edition (2026)
   English edition, 2026Spanish original

Particle physics, quantisation and geometry

1. New sum rules of the Koide type. A. Rivero. Physics Letters B 877, 140510 (2026)
   doiarXiv:2606.10060
2. An interpretation of scalars in SO(32). A. Rivero. European Physical Journal C 84, 1058 (2024)
   doiarXiv:2407.05397
3. Connes' tangent groupoid and strict quantization. J. F. Cariñena, J. Clemente-Gallardo, E. Follana, J. M. Gracia-Bondía, A. Rivero, J. C. Várilly. Journal of Geometry and Physics 32, 79–96 (1999)
   doiarXiv:math/9802102
4. Quantum kinks: self-creating fractionization of the fermion number. J. Casahorrán, J. C. Ciria, A. Rivero. Modern Physics Letters A 9, 3095–3104 (1994)
   doi
5. Supersymmetry and geometric motion. L. J. Boya, R. F. Wehrhahn, A. Rivero. Journal of Physics A 26, 5825 (1993)
   doi
6. Instanton-like contributions to the dynamics of Yang–Mills fields on the twisted torus. Physics Letters B 305 (1993)
   doiarXiv:hep-lat/9302007
7. The U(1)-Higgs model: critical behaviour in the confining-Higgs region. J. L. Alonso, V. Azcoiti, I. Campos, J. C. Ciria, A. Cruz, D. Iñiguez, F. Lesmes, C. Piedrafita, A. Rivero, A. Tarancón, D. Badoni, L. A. Fernández, A. Muñoz Sudupe, J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo, A. González-Arroyo, P. Martínez, J. Pech, P. Téllez. Nuclear Physics B 405, 574–592 (1993)
   doiarXiv:hep-lat/9210014
8. The U(1)-Higgs model: study of the confining-Higgs transition. Nuclear Physics B, Proceedings Supplements 30 (1993)
   doi
9. The confining-Higgs phase transition in U(1)-Higgs lattice gauge theory. Physics Letters B 296 (1992)
   doi

Collective intelligence and opinion dynamics

1. Generating consensus and dissent on massive discussion platforms with a semantic-vector model. A. Ferrer, D. Muñoz-Jordán, A. Rivero, A. Tarancón, C. Tarancón, D. Yllanes. Physical Review E 114, 014311 (2026)
   doiarXiv:2601.13932
2. Geometrical distribution of agents based on a generalised Potts model. A. Rivero, A. Tarancón, C. Tarancón. European Physical Journal B 98, 182 (2025)
   doi
3. The physics of collective human intelligence and opinion propagation on the lattice. T. García-Egea, A. Rivero, A. Tarancón, C. Tarancón. Physics Letters A 522, 129767 (2024)
   doi
4. Collective intelligence to find solutions to the challenges posed by the Sustainable Development Goals. A. Gonzalo, F. Sanz-García, M. Pelacho, A. Tarancón, A. Rivero, O. Varela, A. Moreno. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 8(1), 47 (2023)
   doi
5. Evolutionary emergence of collective intelligence in large groups of students. S. Orejudo, J. Cano-Escoriaza, A. B. Cebollero-Salinas, P. Bautista, J. Clemente-Gallardo, A. Rivero, P. Rivero, A. Tarancón. Frontiers in Psychology 13, 848048 (2022); corrigendum 2023
   doicorrigendum
6. Inteligencia colectiva: emergencia de una mente social. A. Tarancón, D. Iñiguez, A. Rivero, J. Clemente, F. Serrano, C. Ullod, M. Clemente, J. Cano de Escoriaza. Economía Aragonesa 48, 65–78 (2012)

Online social networks and collective action

1. Assessing the bias in samples of large online networks. S. González-Bailón, N. Wang, A. Rivero, J. Borge-Holthoefer, Y. Moreno. Social Networks 38, 16–27 (2014)
   doiSSRN preprint
2. The “Indignados” movement: time dynamics, geographical distribution, and recruitment mechanisms. J. Borge-Holthoefer, S. González-Bailón, A. Rivero, Y. Moreno. In Online Collective Action: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media, Springer (2013), book chapter
3. Locating privileged spreaders on an online social network. J. Borge-Holthoefer, A. Rivero, Y. Moreno. Physical Review E 85, 066123 (2012)
   doiarXiv:1111.4181
4. The dynamics of protest recruitment through an online network. S. González-Bailón, J. Borge-Holthoefer, A. Rivero, Y. Moreno. Scientific Reports 1, 197 (2011)
   doiarXiv:1111.5595
5. Structural and dynamical patterns on online social networks: the Spanish May 15th movement as a case study. J. Borge-Holthoefer, A. Rivero, I. García, E. Cauhé, A. Ferrer, D. Ferrer, D. Francos, D. Iñiguez, M. P. Pérez, G. Ruiz, F. Sanz, F. Serrano, C. Viñas, A. Tarancón, Y. Moreno. PLOS ONE 6(8), e23883 (2011)
   doi

Scientometrics and research analytics

1. 3SA: an entity-linking algorithm for the institution name disambiguation problem in affiliations using edit distance. D. Muñoz-Jordán, G. Ruiz, P. Cabriada, J. L. Durán, D. Iñiguez, A. Rivero. Scientometrics 130, 4073–4091 (2025)
   doi
2. Do researchers collaborate in a similar way to publish and to develop projects? J. Clemente-Gallardo, A. Ferrer, D. Íñiguez, A. Rivero, G. Ruiz, A. Tarancón. Journal of Informetrics 13, 64–77 (2019)
   doi
3. Network analysis to measure academic performance in economics. J. A. Molina, A. Ferrer, D. Iñiguez, A. Rivero, G. Ruiz, A. Tarancón. Empirical Economics 58, 995–1018 (2018)
   doi
4. Analysis of academic productivity based on complex networks. R. Álvarez, E. Cahué, J. Clemente-Gallardo, A. Ferrer, D. Íñiguez, X. Mellado, A. Rivero, G. Ruiz, F. Sanz, E. Serrano, A. Tarancón, Y. Vergara. Scientometrics 104, 651–672 (2015)
   doi

History and philosophy of science

1. Rhythmos, Diathige, Trope. A. Rivero. Llull 23(48), 735–753 (2000). On the atomist vocabulary of shape, order and position.
   arXiv:physics/0006065
2. On the section of a cone. A. Rivero. Preprint (1999). Democritus and infinitesimals.
   arXiv:math/9904021
3. Dream of a Christmas lecture. A. Rivero. Preprint (2000). A historical essay on the origins of calculus.
   arXiv:physics/0001033
4. Democritus as Taoist. A. Rivero. Preprint (2003). Conjectural historical and textual parallels.
   arXiv:physics/0309104
5. On Planck areal speed. A. Rivero. Qeios preprint (2024)
   doi

Preprints on arXiv

Notes and conjectures on lepton and quark mass relations, supersymmetry with composite bosons, noncommutative geometry and discrete spaces, most of them never sent to a journal. Listed newest first.

1. The number of generations in supersymmetric models with preons (2014; manuscript, never deposited)
   recovered PDF, 10 September 2014
2. A possible origin of the q=4/3 diquark (2011)
   arXiv:1111.7230
3. A new Koide tuple: strange–charm–bottom (2011)
   arXiv:1111.7232 · recovered local manuscript, 28 November 2011
4. Unbroken supersymmetry without new particles (2009)
   arXiv:0910.4793
5. Third spectroscopy with a hint of superstrings (2007)
   arXiv:0710.1526
6. Mass terms to break SUSY-like degeneration (2006)
   arXiv:hep-ph/0606171
7. Regularities in electromagnetic decay widths (2006)
   arXiv:hep-ph/0603145
8. Some bounds extracted from a quantum of area (2006)
   arXiv:gr-qc/0603123
9. Supersymmetry with composite bosons (2005)
   arXiv:hep-ph/0512065
10. GUT angle minimises Z⁰ decay (2005)
    arXiv:hep-ph/0511165
11. Anomaly-driven decay of massive vector bosons (2005)
    arXiv:hep-ph/0507144
12. The strange formula of Dr. Koide (2005)
    arXiv:hep-ph/0505220
13. Evidence for radiative generation of lepton masses (2005)
    arXiv:hep-ph/0503104
14. Critical dimension of spectral triples (2004)
    arXiv:physics/0409022
15. Distance to the drip lines (2004)
    arXiv:nucl-th/0407118
16. The 115 GeV signal from nuclear physics (2004)
    arXiv:hep-ph/0405076
17. Some minor examples on discrete geometry (2004)
    arXiv:gr-qc/0404086
18. Standard model masses and models of nuclei (2003)
    arXiv:nucl-th/0312003
19. Flashes of noncommutativity (2003)
    arXiv:math/0302285
20. Tunneling in asymmetric double well: instanton calculus (2002)
    arXiv:quant-ph/0209072
21. A short lecture on divergences (2002)
    arXiv:hep-th/0208180
22. Around Poincaré duality in discrete spaces (2002)
    arXiv:hep-th/0204238
23. Discrete spectral triples converging to Dirac operators (2002)
    arXiv:math-ph/0203024
24. Lessons from numerical analysis (2001)
    arXiv:hep-th/0108136
25. It is the ambiguity: but only three generations (2000)
    arXiv:physics/0007027
26. On generations (1999)
    arXiv:hep-th/9905021
27. Some conjectures looking for a NCG theory (1998)
    arXiv:hep-th/9804169
28. A short derivation of Feynman formula (1998)
    arXiv:quant-ph/9803035
29. Introduction to the Tangent Grupoid (1997; title as deposited)
    arXiv:dg-ga/9710026
30. On variants of the C + M₂(C) + M₃(C) NCG model of elementary particles (1996)
    arXiv:hep-th/9605006
31. Renormalization in 1-D quantum mechanics: contact interactions (1994)
    arXiv:hep-th/9411081

Submission dates recovered from arXiv receipts

Old mail preserves the acknowledgement messages of some submissions, which date them more precisely than the preprint number. The receipts of 1998 arrived at a Telefónica I+D address, where I was working at the time; those of 2000–2003 at rivero@wigner.unizar.es.

A manuscript was also submitted to Physical Review Letters in December 2003 (number LM9256; editorial correspondence of 22 to 24 December). Drafts of nineteen of the preprints above survive on a laptop of the period; see the libretto texts for the notes that stayed unpublished.