Bachir Bekka

926 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 362 citations indexed

About

Bachir Bekka is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology and Algebra and Number Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Bachir Bekka has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 362 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Mathematical Physics, 6 papers in Geometry and Topology and 6 papers in Algebra and Number Theory. Recurrent topics in Bachir Bekka's work include Advanced Algebra and Geometry (10 papers), Advanced Operator Algebra Research (10 papers) and Advanced Topics in Algebra (5 papers). Bachir Bekka is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Algebra and Geometry (10 papers), Advanced Operator Algebra Research (10 papers) and Advanced Topics in Algebra (5 papers). Bachir Bekka collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and Luxembourg. Bachir Bekka's co-authors include Pierre de la Harpe, Alain Valette, Yves Guivarc’h, Mehrdad Kalantar, Yves Cornulier, Alexander Lubotzky, Norbert Poncin, Jean Ludwig, Siegfried Echterhoff and Chi–Keung Ng and has published in prestigious journals such as Inventiones mathematicae, Journal of Functional Analysis and Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society.

In The Last Decade

Bachir Bekka

16 papers receiving 333 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Kazhdan's Property (T)

2008 255 citations Bachir Bekka, Pierre de la Harpe et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Peers

Bachir Bekka

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Romain Tessera France

Kathryn E. Hare Canada

José Ignacio Burgos Gil Spain

N. J. Wildberger Australia

Vincent Lafforgue France

Damien Roy Canada

正樹柏原 China

Nimish A. Shah United States

Fernando Chamizo Spain

Paul Jolissaint Switzerland

Romain Tessera France

Bachir Bekka

257 ×0.8

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180 ×1.0

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55 ×0.4

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109 ×1.6

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40 ×1.2

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Citations per year, relative to Bachir Bekka Bachir Bekka (= 1×) peers Romain Tessera

Countries citing papers authored by Bachir Bekka

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bachir Bekka

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bachir Bekka

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bachir Bekka. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bachir Bekka based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bachir Bekka. Bachir Bekka is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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19 of 19 papers shown

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Bekka, Bachir, et al.. (2022). Characters of algebraic groups over number fields. Groups Geometry and Dynamics. 16(4). 1119–1164. 4 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir & Siegfried Echterhoff. (2021). On unitary representations of algebraic groups over local fields. Representation Theory of the American Mathematical Society. 25(17). 508–526.

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Bekka, Bachir & Mehrdad Kalantar. (2019). Quasi-regular representations of discrete groups and associated\n C*-algebras. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir & Chi–Keung Ng. (2018). Property (𝑇) for locally compact groups and 𝐶*-algebras. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 147(5). 2159–2169.

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Bekka, Bachir. (2018). Infinite characters on GL(Q), on SL (Z), and on groups acting on trees. Journal of Functional Analysis. 277(7). 2160–2178. 1 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir. (2015). Local rigidity for actions of Kazhdan groups on noncommutative L_p-spaces. International Journal of Mathematics. 26(8). 1550064–1550064.

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Bekka, Bachir, et al.. (2014). On groups with Property (Tℓp). Journal of Functional Analysis. 267(3). 643–659. 5 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir & Yves Guivarc’h. (2011). On the spectral theory of groups of affine transformations of compact\n nilmanifolds. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir & Pierre de la Harpe. (2011). Groups with faithful irreducible projective unitary representations. Forum Mathematicum. 1 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir & Alexander Lubotzky. (2011). Lattices with and lattices without spectral gap. Groups Geometry and Dynamics. 5(2). 251–264. 4 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir, et al.. (2010). Random products of automorphisms of Heisenberg nilmanifolds and Weil’s representation. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. 31(5). 1277–1286. 2 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir & Yves Cornulier. (2010). A spectral gap property for subgroups of finite covolume in Lie groups. Colloquium Mathematicum. 118(1). 175–182. 5 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir & Pierre de la Harpe. (2008). Irreducibly represented groups. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 83(4). 847–868. 3 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir, Pierre de la Harpe, & Alain Valette. (2008). Kazhdan's Property (T). Cambridge University Press eBooks. 255 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bekka, Bachir. (2007). Operator-algebraic superridigity for SL n (ℤ), n≥3. Inventiones mathematicae. 169(2). 401–425. 22 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir. (2006). PROPERTY (T) FOR C*-ALGEBRAS. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 38(5). 857–867. 18 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir & Yves Guivarc’h. (2006). A Spectral Gap Property for Random Walks Under Unitary Representations. Geometriae Dedicata. 118(1). 141–155. 3 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir. (2004). Square Integrable Representations, von Neumann Algebras and An Application to Gabor Analysis. Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications. 10(4). 325–349. 25 indexed citations

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Bekka, Bachir, et al.. (2003). Proceedings of the Conference on Harmonic Analysis 2002. 4 indexed citations

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