Eric Bedford

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
117 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Eric Bedford is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Bedford has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Geometry and Topology, 61 papers in Applied Mathematics and 45 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Eric Bedford's work include Holomorphic and Operator Theory (42 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (37 papers) and Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (34 papers). Eric Bedford is often cited by papers focused on Holomorphic and Operator Theory (42 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (37 papers) and Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (34 papers). Eric Bedford collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Eric Bedford's co-authors include B. A. Taylor, John Smillie, John Erik Fornæss, Kyounghee Kim, Sergey Pinchuk, Bernard Gaveau, Steven R. Bell, Wilhelm Klingenberg, Mikhail Lyubich and Jiri Dadok and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications in Mathematical Physics, Annals of Mathematics and Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Eric Bedford

114 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

A new capacity for plurisubharmonic functions 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 100 200 300 400 500
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. A new capacity for plurisubharmonic functions
    1982 502 citations Eric Bedford, B. A. Taylor profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eric Bedford United States 27 2.4k 2.0k 1.0k 496 120 117 2.9k
Steve Zelditch United States 21 962 0.4× 874 0.4× 838 0.8× 343 0.7× 88 0.7× 104 1.5k
Harold Donnelly United States 20 672 0.3× 953 0.5× 914 0.9× 141 0.3× 135 1.1× 99 1.5k
A. Katok United States 24 1.0k 0.4× 379 0.2× 1.9k 1.9× 1.1k 2.2× 99 0.8× 48 2.3k
M. S. Narasimhan India 19 1.6k 0.7× 289 0.1× 1.4k 1.3× 253 0.5× 95 0.8× 56 2.0k
Albert Fathi France 20 607 0.3× 449 0.2× 609 0.6× 568 1.1× 74 0.6× 47 1.3k
Wolf Barth Germany 16 2.4k 1.0× 586 0.3× 1.2k 1.2× 187 0.4× 61 0.5× 32 2.6k
Chris Peters Netherlands 14 2.3k 0.9× 547 0.3× 1.2k 1.1× 164 0.3× 56 0.5× 40 2.4k
Karl‐Hermann Neeb Germany 17 757 0.3× 397 0.2× 1.1k 1.0× 178 0.4× 71 0.6× 152 1.4k
G. A. Margulis United States 27 1.1k 0.5× 405 0.2× 1.4k 1.4× 189 0.4× 46 0.4× 62 1.9k
Ezra Getzler United States 25 1.5k 0.6× 447 0.2× 2.0k 1.9× 455 0.9× 67 0.6× 44 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Eric Bedford

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Fields of papers citing papers by Eric Bedford

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Bedford

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All Works

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Bedford, Eric & Kyounghee Kim. (2019). Julia Sets for Polynomial Diffeomorphisms of $\mathbb{C}^2$ are not Semianalytic. Documenta Mathematica. 24. 163–173. 1 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric, et al.. (2018). The Secant Method for Root Finding, Viewed as a Dynamical System. 11(4). 2 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric, et al.. (2014). Pseudo-automorphisms with no invariant foliation. Journal of Modern Dynamics. 8(2). 221–250. 4 indexed citations
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Abate, Marco, Eric Bedford, Marco Brunella, et al.. (2010). Holomorphic dynamical systems : lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, July 7-12, 2008. Springer eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric, et al.. (2007). Complex Monge-Ampère of a maximum. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 136(1). 95–101. 1 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric, et al.. (1991). Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry. 4 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric & John P. D’Angelo. (1991). Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry. 21 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric, et al.. (1991). Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry. 2 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric & B. A. Taylor. (1987). Fine topology, Šilov boundary, and (ddc)n. Journal of Functional Analysis. 72(2). 225–251. 84 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric. (1982). Levi flat hypersurfaces in $C^2$ with prescribed boundary : stability. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 9(4). 529–570. 13 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric. (1982). Stability of envelopes of holomorphy and the degenerate Monge-Amp�re equation. Mathematische Annalen. 259(1). 1–28. 3 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric & Paolo de Bartolomeis. (1981). Levi flat hypersurfaces which are not holomorphically flat. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 81(4). 575–575. 7 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric. (1981). Stability of the polynomial hull of $T^2$. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 8(2). 311–315. 6 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric & D. Burns. (1979). Holomorphic mapping of annuli in $C^n$ and the associated extremal function. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 6(3). 381–414. 4 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric & Tatsuo Suwa. (1976). Eigenvalues of Hopf Manifolds. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 60(1). 259–259. 2 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric & Tatsuo Suwa. (1976). Eigenvalues of Hopf manifolds. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 60(1). 259–259. 7 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric & B. A. Taylor. (1976). The dirichlet problem for a complex Monge-Amp�re equation. Inventiones mathematicae. 37(1). 1–44. 349 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric. (1974). Shorter Notes: A Short Proof of the Classical Edge of the Wedge Theorem. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 43(2). 485–485. 1 indexed citations
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Bedford, Eric. (1970). Path Maps and Continuity. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 24(1). 112–112.

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