Davide Gaiotto

17.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
100 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Davide Gaiotto is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Geometry and Topology and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Davide Gaiotto has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 40 papers in Geometry and Topology and 35 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Davide Gaiotto's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (85 papers), Algebraic structures and combinatorial models (32 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (28 papers). Davide Gaiotto is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (85 papers), Algebraic structures and combinatorial models (32 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (28 papers). Davide Gaiotto collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Davide Gaiotto's co-authors include Edward Witten, Luis F. Alday, Andrew Neitzke, Yuji Tachikawa, Anton Kapustin, Nathan Seiberg, Gregory W. Moore, Brian Willett, Tudor Dimofte and Xi Yin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Physical Review B and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Davide Gaiotto

95 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

Generalized global symmetries 2009 2026 2014 2020 2015 2010 2012 2009 2012 250 500 750
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. Generalized global symmetries
    2015 927 citations Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  2. Liouville Correlation Functions from Four-Dimensional Gauge Theories
    2010 803 citations Davide Gaiotto et al. profile →
  3. N = 2 dualities
    2012 585 citations Davide Gaiotto Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  4. $S$-duality of boundary conditions in ${\mathcal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory
    2009 428 citations Davide Gaiotto et al. profile →
  5. Wall-crossing, Hitchin systems, and the WKB approximation
    2012 383 citations Davide Gaiotto, Gregory W. Moore et al. Advances in Mathematics profile →
  6. Theta, time reversal and temperature
    2017 280 citations Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  7. Gauge Theories Labelled by Three-Manifolds
    2013 215 citations Davide Gaiotto et al. profile →
  8. 3-Manifolds and 3d indices
    2013 187 citations Davide Gaiotto et al. profile →
  9. Orbifold groupoids
    2021 158 citations Davide Gaiotto et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →

Peers

Davide Gaiotto
Erik Verlinde Netherlands
Emil J. Martinec United States
Jeffrey A. Harvey United States
A. A. Belavin Russia
Herman Verlinde United States
Hirosi Ooguri United States
Daniel Friedan United States
Michael R. Douglas United States
Eric D’Hoker United States
Luis Álvarez-Gaumé Switzerland
Erik Verlinde Netherlands
Davide Gaiotto
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Countries citing papers authored by Davide Gaiotto

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Fields of papers citing papers by Davide Gaiotto

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Davide Gaiotto

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Davide Gaiotto. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Davide Gaiotto 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 Davide Gaiotto. Davide Gaiotto is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gaiotto, Davide, et al.. (2025). Twisted holography. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(1). 8 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide, et al.. (2025). Categorical ’t Hooft expansion and chiral algebras. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(12).
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Gaiotto, Davide, et al.. (2025). Twisted M2 brane holography and sphere correlation functions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3).
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Gaiotto, Davide. (2025). Sphere quantization of Higgs and Coulomb branches and Analytic Symplectic Duality. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(1). 2 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide, et al.. (2024). Aspects of Ω-deformed M-theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(12). 3 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide, et al.. (2024). Semi-chiral operators in 4d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 gauge theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(5). 6 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide, et al.. (2024). The $g$-function and defect changing operators from wavefunction overlap on a fuzzy sphere. SciPost Physics. 17(1). 13 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide. (2024). Vertex algebra constructions for (analytic) geometric Langlands in genus zero. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(12). 1 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide & Theo Johnson-Freyd. (2023). Mock modularity and a secondary elliptic genus. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(8). 6 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide, et al.. (2023). Feynman diagrams in four-dimensional holomorphic theories and the Operatope. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(7). 11 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide, et al.. (2023). Twisted holography without conformal symmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(12). 2 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide & Miroslav Rapčák. (2022). Miura operators, degenerate fields and the M2-M5 intersection. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(1). 86–86. 11 indexed citations
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Dedushenko, Mykola & Davide Gaiotto. (2021). Algebras, traces, and boundary correlators in N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SYM. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide & Tadashi Okazaki. (2020). Sphere correlation functions and Verma modules. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 20 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide, Anton Kapustin, Zohar Komargodski, & Nathan Seiberg. (2017). Theta, time reversal and temperature. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2017(5). 280 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gaiotto, Davide, Juan Maldacena, Amit Sever, & Pedro Vieira. (2016). Pulling the straps of polygons. 76 indexed citations
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Ho, Wen Wei, et al.. (2015). Edge-entanglement spectrum correspondence in a nonchiral topological phase and Kramers-Wannier duality. Physical Review B. 91(12). 29 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide, Gregory W. Moore, & Andrew Neitzke. (2012). Wall-crossing, Hitchin systems, and the WKB approximation. Advances in Mathematics. 234. 239–403. 383 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gaiotto, Davide, Simone Giombi, & Xi Yin. (2009). Spin Chains in \\(\\mathcal{N}\\)=6 Superconformal Chern-Simons-Matter Theory. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 109 indexed citations
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Dabholkar, Atish & Davide Gaiotto. (2007). Spectrum of CHL dyons from genus-two partition function. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2007(12). 87–87. 35 indexed citations

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