André Haefliger

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

André Haefliger is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, André Haefliger has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Geometry and Topology, 15 papers in Mathematical Physics and 7 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in André Haefliger's work include Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (11 papers), Geometric and Algebraic Topology (7 papers) and Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory (6 papers). André Haefliger is often cited by papers focused on Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (11 papers), Geometric and Algebraic Topology (7 papers) and Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory (6 papers). André Haefliger collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and France. André Haefliger's co-authors include Martin R. Bridson, Armand Borel, Raghavan Narasimhan, Morris W. Hirsch, R. Bott, C. T. C. Wall, Valentin Poénaru, Étienne Ghys, Alberto Verjovsky and Georges de Rham and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Mathematics, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and Journal of Differential Geometry.

In The Last Decade

André Haefliger

44 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Metric Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Metric Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature
    1999 2.3k citations André Haefliger et al. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
André Haefliger Switzerland 23 2.9k 2.0k 1.0k 994 403 46 3.8k
Enrico Bombieri United States 31 2.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 1.2× 799 0.8× 569 1.4× 104 3.6k
William S. Massey United States 24 1.3k 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 430 0.4× 603 0.6× 239 0.6× 47 2.5k
Hans Grauert Germany 31 2.5k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 1.7k 1.6× 388 0.4× 102 0.3× 64 3.7k
Dennis Sullivan France 37 4.1k 1.4× 4.1k 2.1× 1.9k 1.8× 498 0.5× 193 0.5× 80 5.7k
Martin R. Bridson United Kingdom 18 2.6k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 746 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 567 1.4× 97 3.1k
C. T. C. Wall United Kingdom 36 3.6k 1.2× 2.9k 1.4× 682 0.7× 712 0.7× 628 1.6× 148 4.7k
Dietmar Salamon United States 31 2.4k 0.8× 2.3k 1.1× 942 0.9× 833 0.8× 211 0.5× 66 4.2k
Albrecht Dold Germany 20 1.7k 0.6× 1.8k 0.9× 393 0.4× 466 0.5× 165 0.4× 40 2.6k
M. Gromov France 28 3.0k 1.0× 1.9k 1.0× 2.3k 2.2× 518 0.5× 278 0.7× 66 4.2k
Adam Korányi United States 23 976 0.3× 1.1k 0.5× 1.7k 1.6× 772 0.8× 67 0.2× 71 2.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by André Haefliger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of André Haefliger

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Haefliger, André, et al.. (2006). Closed geodesics on orbifolds. Topology. 45(3). 611–641. 10 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne, André Haefliger, & Alberto Verjovsky. (1991). Group theory from a geometrical viewpoint, 26 March-6 April 1990, ICTP, Trieste, Italy. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1985). Deformations of transversely holomorphic flows on spheres and deformations of hopf manifolds. Compositio Mathematica. 55(2). 241–251. 20 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1982). Rational Homotopy of the Space of Sections of a Nilpotent Bundle. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 273(2). 609–609. 21 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1982). Rational homotopy of the space of sections of a nilpotent bundle. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 273(2). 609–609. 44 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1976). Un modèle pour l'espace des sections d'un fibré. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 13(3). 37–56. 1 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André, Raghavan Narasimhan, & Georges de Rham. (1970). Essays on topology and related topics : memoires dédiés à Georges de Rham. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 17 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1970). Feuilletages sur les variétés ouvertes. Topology. 9(2). 183–194. 62 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André & Raghavan Narasimhan. (1970). Essays on Topology and Related Topics. 76 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1967). Lissage des immersions—I. Topology. 6(2). 221–239. 17 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1966). Travaux de Novikov sur les feuilletages. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 10. 433–444. 9 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André & C. T. C. Wall. (1965). Piecewise linear bundles in the stable range. Topology. 4(3). 209–214. 44 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1964). Plongements de variétés dans le domaine stable. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 8. 63–77. 10 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André & Morris W. Hirsch. (1963). On the existence and classification of differentiable embeddings. Topology. 2(1-2). 129–135. 41 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1962). Plongements différentiables de variétés dans variétés. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 36(1). 47–82. 134 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André & Morris W. Hirsch. (1962). Immersions in the Stable Range. Annals of Mathematics. 75(2). 231–231. 44 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1961). Points Multiples D'Une Application et Produit Cyclique Reduit. American Journal of Mathematics. 83(1). 57–57. 20 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1959). Sur les self-intersections des applications différentiables. Bulletin de la Société mathématique de France. 79. 351–359. 2 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André. (1957). Les singularités des applications différentiables. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 9. 1–8. 2 indexed citations
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Haefliger, André, et al.. (1957). Un théorème de Thom sur les singularités des applications différentiables. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 9. 1–6. 14 indexed citations

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