# Papers

If reading academic papers is your thing, you're in luck. There are a number of papers that have been written about Pony. We host a number of them on this website. If you're interested in learning more about "deep Pony", these papers are a great place to start:

* [Deny Capabilities for Safe, Fast Actors](/media/papers/fast-cheap.pdf)
* [Ownership and Reference Counting based Garbage Collection in the Actor World](/media/papers/OGC.pdf)
* [Fully Concurrent Garbage Collection of Actors on Many-Core Machines](/media/papers/opsla237-clebsch.pdf)
* [A String of Ponies: Transparent Distributed Programming with Actors](/media/papers/a_string_of_ponies.pdf)
* [A Principled Design of Capabilities in Pony](/media/papers/a_prinicipled_design_of_capabilities_in_pony.pdf)
* [ORCA: GC and Type System Co-Design for Actor Languages](/media/papers/orca_gc_and_type_system_co-design_for_actor_languages.pdf)
* [Formalizing Generics for Pony](/media/papers/formalizing-generics-for-pony.pdf)
