Laurent Saloff‐Coste

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Laurent Saloff‐Coste is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Laurent Saloff‐Coste has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Mathematical Physics, 27 papers in Geometry and Topology and 24 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Laurent Saloff‐Coste's work include Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (23 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (22 papers) and Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (16 papers). Laurent Saloff‐Coste is often cited by papers focused on Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (23 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (22 papers) and Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (16 papers). Laurent Saloff‐Coste collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Taiwan. Laurent Saloff‐Coste's co-authors include Persi Diaconis, Thierry Coulhon, N. Th. Varopoulos, Pierre Brémaud, Waldemar Hebisch, Guan‐Yu Chen, Dominique Bakry, Christophe Pittet, Michel Ledoux and Alexander Bendikov and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Communications in Mathematical Physics and Lecture notes in mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Laurent Saloff‐Coste

75 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Analysis and Geometry on ... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 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. Analysis and Geometry on Groups
    1993 587 citations Laurent Saloff‐Coste, Thierry Coulhon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laurent Saloff‐Coste United States 23 1.6k 1.5k 812 803 648 80 3.1k
A. M. Vershik Russia 28 1.5k 1.0× 443 0.3× 484 0.6× 962 1.2× 478 0.7× 172 2.7k
Oded Schramm United States 35 2.9k 1.8× 802 0.5× 1.3k 1.6× 1.1k 1.4× 630 1.0× 83 4.2k
Albrecht Böttcher Germany 24 1.3k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 467 0.6× 250 0.3× 1.2k 1.9× 145 3.1k
R. Daniel Mauldin United States 27 2.2k 1.4× 504 0.3× 248 0.3× 965 1.2× 623 1.0× 130 2.9k
В. И. Богачев Russia 28 1.8k 1.1× 1.7k 1.1× 482 0.6× 457 0.6× 1.1k 1.6× 226 3.9k
Itaï Benjamini Israel 25 1.5k 1.0× 242 0.2× 881 1.1× 504 0.6× 395 0.6× 132 2.1k
Russell Lyons United States 22 1.8k 1.1× 233 0.2× 1.1k 1.3× 492 0.6× 413 0.6× 73 2.3k
Yitzhak Katznelson United States 21 1.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 258 0.3× 796 1.0× 650 1.0× 63 3.1k
Sergey G. Bobkov United States 22 479 0.3× 1.2k 0.8× 668 0.8× 302 0.4× 200 0.3× 81 2.0k
Van Vu United States 27 946 0.6× 290 0.2× 1.2k 1.5× 557 0.7× 288 0.4× 73 2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laurent Saloff‐Coste

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Saloff‐Coste, Laurent, et al.. (2024). Hitting probabilities and uniformly S-transient subgraphs. Electronic Journal of Probability. 29(none).
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Saloff‐Coste, Laurent, et al.. (2023). On-diagonal asymptotics for heat kernels of a class of inhomogeneous partial differential operators. Journal of Differential Equations. 363. 67–125. 1 indexed citations
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Rudolf, Daniel, et al.. (2022). The hit-and-run version of top-to-random. Journal of Applied Probability. 59(3). 860–879.
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Gross, Leonard, et al.. (2017). Strong hypercontractivity and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities on stratified complex Lie groups. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 370(9). 6651–6683. 2 indexed citations
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Saloff‐Coste, Laurent, et al.. (2015). On the Convolution Powers of Complex Functions on $$\mathbb {Z}$$ Z. Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications. 21(4). 754–798. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Guan‐Yu & Laurent Saloff‐Coste. (2015). Computing cutoff times of birth and death chains. Electronic Journal of Probability. 20(none). 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Guan‐Yu & Laurent Saloff‐Coste. (2013). On the mixing time and spectral gap for birth and death chains. Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. 10(1). 293–321. 8 indexed citations
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Bendikov, Alexander, et al.. (2010). The heat semigroup and Brownian motion on strip complexes. Advances in Mathematics. 226(1). 992–1055. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Guan‐Yu & Laurent Saloff‐Coste. (2009). The L2-cutoff for reversible Markov processes. Journal of Functional Analysis. 258(7). 2246–2315. 7 indexed citations
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Saloff‐Coste, Laurent, et al.. (2009). Merging for time inhomogeneous finite Markov chains, Part I: Singular values and stability. Electronic Journal of Probability. 14(none). 16 indexed citations
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Saloff‐Coste, Laurent & Wolfgang Woess. (2009). Computations of spectral radii on G-spaces. 195–218. 1 indexed citations
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Diaconis, Persi, Kshitij Khare, & Laurent Saloff‐Coste. (2008). Gibbs Sampling, Exponential Families and Orthogonal Polynomials. Rejoinder.. Statistical Science. 196–200. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Guan‐Yu & Laurent Saloff‐Coste. (2007). The cutoff phenomenon for randomized riffle shuffles. Random Structures and Algorithms. 32(3). 346–374. 5 indexed citations
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Saloff‐Coste, Laurent, et al.. (2006). Convergence of some time inhomogeneous Markov chains via spectral techniques. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 117(8). 961–979. 22 indexed citations
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Bendikov, Alexander & Laurent Saloff‐Coste. (2005). On the regularity of sample paths of sub-elliptic diffusions on manifolds. Osaka Journal of Mathematics. 42(3). 677–722. 5 indexed citations
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Bendikov, Alexander & Laurent Saloff‐Coste. (2001). Central Gaussian Semigroups of Measures with Continuous Density. Journal of Functional Analysis. 186(1). 206–268. 13 indexed citations
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Diaconis, Persi & Laurent Saloff‐Coste. (1998). What Do We Know about the Metropolis Algorithm ?. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 57(1). 20–36. 94 indexed citations
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Diaconis, Persi & Laurent Saloff‐Coste. (1996). Nash inequalities for finite Markov chains. Journal of Theoretical Probability. 9(2). 459–510. 66 indexed citations
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Saloff‐Coste, Laurent & Wolfgang Woess. (1996). Computing Norms of Group-Invariant Transition Operators. Combinatorics Probability Computing. 5(2). 161–178. 7 indexed citations
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Coulhon, Thierry & Laurent Saloff‐Coste. (1993). Minorations pour les chaînes de Markov unidimensionnelles. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 97(3). 423–431. 11 indexed citations

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