Craig A. Tracy

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Craig A. Tracy is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Statistics and Probability and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Craig A. Tracy has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Mathematical Physics, 36 papers in Statistics and Probability and 33 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Craig A. Tracy's work include Random Matrices and Applications (32 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (31 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (30 papers). Craig A. Tracy is often cited by papers focused on Random Matrices and Applications (32 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (31 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (30 papers). Craig A. Tracy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Craig A. Tracy's co-authors include Harold Widom, Barry M. McCoy, Tai Tsun Wu, Eytan Barouch, Estelle Basor, Janko Gravner, John Palmer, Alexander Its, Yang Chen and L. C. Grove and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Craig A. Tracy

67 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Level-spacing distributions and the Airy kernel 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Level-spacing distributions and the Airy kernel
    1994 972 citations Craig A. Tracy, Harold Widom profile →

Peers

Craig A. Tracy
Peter J. Forrester Australia
Harold Widom United States
Piet Kasteleyn Netherlands
A J Guttmann Australia
Yan V. Fyodorov United Kingdom
J. Ginibre France
Philippe Di Francesco France
M. A. Moore United Kingdom
M. L. Mehta France
Gernot Akemann Germany
Peter J. Forrester Australia
Craig A. Tracy
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Basor, Estelle, Albrecht Böttcher, Torsten Ehrhardt, & Craig A. Tracy. (2022). Toeplitz Operators and Random Matrices. 1 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A. & Harold Widom. (2010). Formulas for ASEP with Two-Sided Bernoulli Initial Condition. Journal of Statistical Physics. 140(4). 619–634. 11 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A. & Harold Widom. (2009). On the Distribution of a Second Class Particle in the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion\n Process. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 8 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A. & Harold Widom. (2005). Matrix kernels for the Gaussian orthogonal and symplectic ensembles. Annales de l’institut Fourier. 55(6). 2197–2207. 18 indexed citations
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Its, Alexander, Craig A. Tracy, & Harold Widom. (2001). Random words, Toeplitz determinants and integrable systems: II. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 152-153. 199–224. 31 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A. & Harold Widom. (1999). On the Distributions of the Lengths of the Longest Increasing and Decreasing Subsequences in Random Words. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A. & Harold Widom. (1997). The Distribution of the Largest Eigenvalue in the Gaussian Ensembles. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 50 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A. & Harold Widom. (1997). On exact solutions to the cylindrical Poisson-Boltzmann equation with applications to polyelectrolytes. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 244(1-4). 402–413. 50 indexed citations
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Basor, Estelle, Craig A. Tracy, & Harold Widom. (1992). Asymptotics of level-spacing distributions for random matrices. Physical Review Letters. 69(1). 5–8. 37 indexed citations
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Basor, Estelle & Craig A. Tracy. (1992). ASYMPTOTICS OF A TAU-FUNCTION AND TOEPLITZ DETERMINANTS WITH SINGULAR GENERATING FUNCTIONS. International Journal of Modern Physics A. 7(supp01a). 83–107. 12 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A.. (1988). Universality class of a Fibonacci Ising model. Journal of Statistical Physics. 51(3-4). 481–490. 13 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A., et al.. (1987). Symmetry group for a completely symmetric vertex model. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 20(10). 2667–2677. 1 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A.. (1987). The emerging role of number theory in exactly solvable models in lattice statistical mechanics. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 25(1-3). 1–19. 3 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A.. (1985). Embedded elliptic curves and the Yang-Baxter equations. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 16(2). 203–220. 18 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A.. (1985). Complete integrability in statistical mechanics and the Yang-Baxter equations. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 14(2). 253–264. 3 indexed citations
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Palmer, John & Craig A. Tracy. (1983). Two-dimensional ising correlations: The SMJ analysis. Advances in Applied Mathematics. 4(1). 46–102. 12 indexed citations
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Palmer, John & Craig A. Tracy. (1981). Two-dimensional Ising correlations: Convergence of the scaling limit. Advances in Applied Mathematics. 2(3). 329–388. 41 indexed citations
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McCoy, Barry M., Craig A. Tracy, & Tai Tsun Wu. (1977). Painlevé functions of the third kind. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 18(5). 1058–1092. 167 indexed citations
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Wu, Tai Tsun, Barry M. McCoy, Craig A. Tracy, & Eytan Barouch. (1976). Spin-spin correlation functions for the two-dimensional Ising model: Exact theory in the scaling region. Physical review. B, Solid state. 13(1). 316–374. 419 indexed citations
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Tracy, Craig A.. (1974). On the decay rate of order-parameter fluctuations. Physics Letters A. 48(1). 9–10. 2 indexed citations

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