Andreas Floer

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Andreas Floer is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Floer has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Geometry and Topology, 20 papers in Mathematical Physics and 5 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Andreas Floer's work include Geometric and Algebraic Topology (21 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (14 papers) and Geometry and complex manifolds (10 papers). Andreas Floer is often cited by papers focused on Geometric and Algebraic Topology (21 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (14 papers) and Geometry and complex manifolds (10 papers). Andreas Floer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Andreas Floer's co-authors include Alan Weinstein, Helmut Hofer, Dietmar Salamon, Kai Cieliebak, Krzysztof Wysocki, Claude Viterbo, H. Höfer and Eduard Zehnder and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications in Mathematical Physics, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics and Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Floer

26 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Nonspreading wave packets for the cubic Schrödinger equation with a bounded potential

1986 637 citations Andreas Floer, Alan Weinstein Journal of Functional Analysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andreas Floer United States	20	1.8k	1.7k	944	562	294	26	2.5k
Yong‐Geun Oh United States	23	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	993 1.1×	382 0.7×	300 1.0×	82	2.2k
Dusa McDuff United States	28	2.2k 1.2×	2.8k 1.6×	717 0.8×	189 0.3×	219 0.7×	86	3.2k
John Franks United States	26	1.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	249 0.3×	340 0.6×	689 2.3×	77	2.0k
G. D. Mostow United States	27	1.7k 1.0×	2.0k 1.2×	868 0.9×	217 0.4×	151 0.5×	66	2.8k
Albert Fathi France	20	609 0.3×	607 0.4×	449 0.5×	198 0.4×	568 1.9×	47	1.3k
Michael Christ United States	32	2.1k 1.2×	355 0.2×	2.8k 3.0×	372 0.7×	315 1.1×	95	3.4k
Harold Donnelly United States	20	914 0.5×	672 0.4×	953 1.0×	353 0.6×	141 0.5×	99	1.5k
Robion Kirby United States	17	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	233 0.2×	217 0.4×	70 0.2×	27	1.7k
Karl‐Hermann Neeb Germany	17	1.1k 0.6×	757 0.4×	397 0.4×	82 0.1×	178 0.6×	152	1.4k
Frederick Greenleaf United States	17	1.1k 0.6×	602 0.4×	488 0.5×	151 0.3×	62 0.2×	50	1.5k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Floer, Andreas & Helmut Hofer. (2011). The Floer Memorial Volume. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 4 indexed citations

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Cieliebak, Kai, Andreas Floer, H. Höfer, & Krzysztof Wysocki. (1996). Applications of symplectic homology II stability of the action spectrum. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 223(1). 27–45. 24 indexed citations

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Cieliebak, Kai, Andreas Floer, & Helmut Hofer. (1995). Symplectic homology II. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 218(1). 103–122. 73 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas, Helmut Hofer, & Krzysztof Wysocki. (1994). Applications of symplectic homology I. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 217(1). 577–606. 42 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas & Helmut Hofer. (1994). Symplectic homology I open sets in ℂ n. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 215(1). 37–88. 72 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas & Helmut Hofer. (1993). Coherent orientations for periodic orbit problems in symplectic geometry. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 212(1). 13–38. 85 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas. (1990). A topological persistence theorem for normally hyperbolic manifolds via the Conley index. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 321(2). 647–657. 2 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas. (1990). Elliptic methods in variational problems. 3 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas. (1990). A Topological Persistence Theorem for Normally Hyperbolic Manifolds via the Conley Index. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 321(2). 647–647. 2 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas, Helmut Hofer, & Claude Viterbo. (1990). The Weinstein conjecture inP×C 1. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 203(1). 469–482. 28 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas. (1989). Symplectic fixed points and holomorphic spheres. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 120(4). 575–611. 225 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas & Eduard Zehnder. (1988). The equivariant Conley index and bifurcations of periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. 8(8). 87–97. 12 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas. (1988). The unregularized gradient flow of the symplectic action. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 41(6). 775–813. 181 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas. (1988). Morse theory for Lagrangian intersections. Journal of Differential Geometry. 28(3). 311 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas. (1988). A relative morse index for the symplectic action. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 41(4). 393–407. 90 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas. (1987). Monopoles on asymptotically Euclidean 3-manifolds. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 16(1). 125–127. 6 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas. (1987). Morse theory for fixed points of symplectic diffeomorphisms. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 16(2). 279–281. 28 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas. (1987). A refinement of the Conley index and an application to the stability of hyperbolic invariant sets. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. 7(1). 93–103. 39 indexed citations

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Floer, Andreas & Alan Weinstein. (1986). Nonspreading wave packets for the cubic Schrödinger equation with a bounded potential. Journal of Functional Analysis. 69(3). 397–408. 637 indexed citations breakdown →

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Floer, Andreas. (1986). Proof of the Arnold conjecture for surfaces and generalizations to certain Kähler manifolds. Duke Mathematical Journal. 53(1). 38 indexed citations

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