Gustav A. Hedlund

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Gustav A. Hedlund is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gustav A. Hedlund has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Mathematical Physics, 5 papers in Geometry and Topology and 5 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Gustav A. Hedlund's work include Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (8 papers), Cellular Automata and Applications (4 papers) and Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (3 papers). Gustav A. Hedlund is often cited by papers focused on Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (8 papers), Cellular Automata and Applications (4 papers) and Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (3 papers). Gustav A. Hedlund collaborates with scholars based in United States. Gustav A. Hedlund's co-authors include W. H. Gottschalk, Ethan M. Coven and M. K. Fort and has published in prestigious journals such as Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Pacific Journal of Mathematics and Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.

In The Last Decade

Gustav A. Hedlund

12 papers receiving 862 citations

Hit Papers

Endomorphisms and automorphisms of the shift dynamical sy... 1969 2026 1988 2007 1969 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Endomorphisms and automorphisms of the shift dynamical system
    1969 502 citations Gustav A. Hedlund Theory of Computing Systems profile →

Peers

Gustav A. Hedlund
Raphael M. Robinson United States
Ethan M. Coven United States
Bruce Kitchens United States
Gérard Rauzy France
David A. Klarner United States
Sébastien Ferenczi France
M. H. McAndrew United States
M. Lothaire United Kingdom
Robert Cori France
Julien Cassaigne France
Raphael M. Robinson United States
Gustav A. Hedlund
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All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Coven, Ethan M. & Gustav A. Hedlund. (1980). Continuous Maps of the Interval whose Periodic Points form a Closed Set. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 79(1). 127–127. 7 indexed citations
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Coven, Ethan M. & Gustav A. Hedlund. (1980). 𝑃=𝑅 for maps of the interval. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 79(2). 316–318. 21 indexed citations
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Coven, Ethan M. & Gustav A. Hedlund. (1980). _ P   = _ R   for Maps of the Interval. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 79(2). 316–316. 14 indexed citations
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Coven, Ethan M. & Gustav A. Hedlund. (1980). Continuous maps of the interval whose periodic points form a closed set. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 79(1). 127–133. 11 indexed citations
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Coven, Ethan M., et al.. (1979). The commuting block maps problem. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 249(1). 113–138. 13 indexed citations
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Coven, Ethan M. & Gustav A. Hedlund. (1979). Periods of some nonlinear shift registers. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 27(2). 186–197. 5 indexed citations
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Coven, Ethan M. & Gustav A. Hedlund. (1973). Sequences with minimal block growth. Theory of Computing Systems. 7(2). 138–153. 152 indexed citations
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Hedlund, Gustav A.. (1969). Endomorphisms and automorphisms of the shift dynamical system. Theory of Computing Systems. 3(4). 320–375. 502 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gottschalk, W. H. & Gustav A. Hedlund. (1964). A characterization of the Morse minimal set. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 15(1). 70–74. 30 indexed citations
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Fort, M. K. & Gustav A. Hedlund. (1958). Minimal coverings of pairs by triples. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 8(4). 709–719. 91 indexed citations
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Gottschalk, W. H. & Gustav A. Hedlund. (1955). Topological Dynamics. 234 indexed citations
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Hedlund, Gustav A.. (1955). A class of transformations of the plane. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 51(4). 554–564. 13 indexed citations

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