The physics archives (8/91)
The physics archives include astro-ph, cond-mat, gr-qc, hep-ex, hep-lat, hep-ph, hep-th, math-ph, nucl-ex,nucl-th, physics and quant-ph. The first archive, hep-th, was created in August 1991 (see early arXiv messages).
We have recently launched a the Quantitative Finance (q-fin) archive to house articles that have historically been submitted to cond-mat or physics.soc-ph.
Since the reformulation of the arXiv identifiers in April 2007, the physics reorganization proposed in 2005 is no longer necessary. A division of the astro-ph archive, however, is still in development.
The arXiv Physics Advisory Committee:
The advisory committee members serve as consultants to the Cornell University Library and to the arXiv advisory board. All arXiv policy decisions are ultimately made by Cornell University Library.
- Andrew Connolly (Pittsburgh): astrophysics
- Bruno Nachtergaele (UC Davis): mathematical physics
- Gerd Schon (Universität Karlsruhe): condensed-matter theory
- Brian Maple (UCSD): condensed-matter experiment
- Debbie Jin (Colorado): AMO
- Jacques Distler (Texas): high-energy theory
- Nick Solomey (Fermilab, Illinois Institute of Technology): high-energy experiment
- Paul Ginsparg (Cornell): ex-officio staff liaison