John Lott

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
156 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

John Lott is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Lott has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Geometry and Topology, 37 papers in Applied Mathematics and 33 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in John Lott's work include Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (35 papers), Geometry and complex manifolds (27 papers) and Advanced Operator Algebra Research (20 papers). John Lott is often cited by papers focused on Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (35 papers), Geometry and complex manifolds (27 papers) and Advanced Operator Algebra Research (20 papers). John Lott collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. John Lott's co-authors include Cédric Villani, Alain Connes, David R. Gretch, Raymond S. Koff, D. Robert Dufour, Leonard B. Seeff, Frederick S. Nolte, John M. Stang, Michael J. Pugia and Jean‐Michel Bismut and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

John Lott

149 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces via optimal transport

2009 563 citations John Lott, Cédric Villani profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Lott United States	30	1.3k	1.0k	688	557	527	156	4.3k
Michael T. Anderson United States	30	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	378 0.5×	137 0.2×	677 1.3×	86	3.8k
Kentarô Yano Japan	27	1.2k 0.9×	944 0.9×	188 0.3×	39 0.1×	862 1.6×	156	2.7k
William Browder United States	32	209 0.2×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	223 0.4×	46 0.1×	106	3.4k
Peter Buser Switzerland	43	582 0.4×	716 0.7×	521 0.8×	492 0.9×	80 0.2×	187	7.5k
Jeffrey Rauch United States	29	1.0k 0.8×	133 0.1×	2.2k 3.1×	299 0.5×	79 0.1×	111	3.8k
Masayoshi Nagata Japan	31	158 0.1×	1.1k 1.1×	418 0.6×	86 0.2×	211 0.4×	275	3.3k
Takao Fujita Japan	44	281 0.2×	1.3k 1.3×	673 1.0×	43 0.1×	1.7k 3.1×	324	7.1k
Vipul Periwal United States	26	39 0.0×	209 0.2×	121 0.2×	474 0.9×	212 0.4×	104	2.7k
R. Bott France	30	681 0.5×	1.4k 1.4×	1.5k 2.2×	34 0.1×	211 0.4×	49	3.6k
Yasuhiko Yamada Japan	26	51 0.0×	771 0.8×	213 0.3×	148 0.3×	47 0.1×	184	2.5k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Lott, John. (2023). On 3-manifolds with pointwise pinched nonnegative Ricci curvature. Mathematische Annalen. 388(3). 2787–2806. 4 indexed citations

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Grabowski, C., S.K. Coffey, Ben Richard Hughes, et al.. (2020). Design and Performance of the Solid-State Laser Trigger System for HERMES III. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 48(10). 3289–3304.

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Lott, John. (2020). On the initial geometry of a vacuum cosmological spacetime*. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 37(8). 85017–85017. 2 indexed citations

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Grabowski, C., S.K. Coffey, Ben Hughes, et al.. (2019). Modernization of the Marx and Rimfire Triggering Systems for the HERMES-III Accelerator. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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Kleiner, Bruce & John Lott. (2018). Local Collapsing, Orbifolds, and Geometrization. Astérisque. 1 indexed citations

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Kleiner, Bruce & John Lott. (2014). Geometrization of three-dimensional orbifolds via Ricci flow. Astérisque. 101–177. 8 indexed citations

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Lott, John & Nataša Šešum. (2014). Ricci flow on three-dimensional manifolds with symmetry. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 89(1). 1–32. 7 indexed citations

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Lott, John. (2010). Dimensional reduction and the long-time behavior of Ricci flow. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 85(3). 485–534. 19 indexed citations

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Lott, John & Cédric Villani. (2007). Hamilton–Jacobi semigroup on length spaces and applications. Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. 88(3). 219–229. 26 indexed citations

10.

Lott, John & Cédric Villani. (2005). Weak curvature conditions and Poincare inequalities. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Pugia, Michael J., Linda Anderson, S L Gleason, et al.. (2004). The uristatin dipstick is useful in distinguishing upper respiratory from urinary tract infections. Clinica Chimica Acta. 341(1-2). 73–81. 9 indexed citations

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Lott, John. (2003). Some geometric properties of the Bakry-Émery-Ricci tensor. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 78(4). 865–883. 187 indexed citations

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Lott, John. (2002). Collapsing and Dirac-Type Operators. Geometriae Dedicata. 91(1). 175–196. 11 indexed citations

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Lott, John. (2001). The Index Gerbe. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Lott, John. (2000). Invariant currents on limit sets. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 75(2). 319–350. 4 indexed citations

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Lee, Jae Young, Atef N. Hanna, John Lott, & Hari M. Sharma. (1996). The Antioxidant and Antiatherogenic Effects of MAK-4 In WHHL Rabbits. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 2(4). 463–478. 9 indexed citations

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Bismut, Jean‐Michel & John Lott. (1995). Flat Vector Bundles, Direct Images and Higher Real Analytic Torsion. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 8(2). 291–291. 23 indexed citations

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Bismut, Jean‐Michel & John Lott. (1995). Flat vector bundles, direct images and higher real analytic torsion. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 8(2). 291–363. 70 indexed citations

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Lott, John. (1988). Real anomalies. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 29(6). 1455–1464. 5 indexed citations

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Copeland, William, et al.. (1978). Assessment of a rapid test on amniotic fluid for estimating fetal lung maturity. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 130(2). 225–226. 17 indexed citations

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