Louis Block

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Louis Block is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Louis Block has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Mathematical Physics, 32 papers in Geometry and Topology and 27 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Louis Block's work include Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (60 papers), Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (28 papers) and Quantum chaos and dynamical systems (14 papers). Louis Block is often cited by papers focused on Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (60 papers), Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (28 papers) and Quantum chaos and dynamical systems (14 papers). Louis Block collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Croatia. Louis Block's co-authors include William Andrew Coppel, James Keesling, Ethan M. Coven, John E. Franke, Kevin Peterson, Shihai Li, W. A. Coppel, Michał Misiurewicz, Zbigniew Nitecki and Leo Jonker and has published in prestigious journals such as Lecture notes in mathematics, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and Inventiones mathematicae.

In The Last Decade

Louis Block

59 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Dynamics in One Dimension 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 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. Dynamics in One Dimension
    1992 542 citations Louis Block 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
Louis Block United States 17 1.2k 613 578 224 134 64 1.4k
J. Smı́tal Czechia 20 1.3k 1.1× 677 1.1× 474 0.8× 216 1.0× 81 0.6× 74 1.4k
Manfred Denker Germany 12 936 0.8× 324 0.5× 289 0.5× 214 1.0× 48 0.4× 31 1.0k
S. F. Kolyada Ukraine 12 727 0.6× 347 0.6× 340 0.6× 141 0.6× 78 0.6× 25 843
F. Ledrappier France 13 760 0.6× 547 0.9× 189 0.3× 72 0.3× 108 0.8× 19 973
Eli Glasner Israel 23 1.6k 1.4× 380 0.6× 1.1k 1.9× 462 2.1× 47 0.4× 67 1.8k
Jörg Schmeling Germany 13 789 0.6× 365 0.6× 198 0.3× 152 0.7× 52 0.4× 35 847
John Banks Australia 6 701 0.6× 480 0.8× 337 0.6× 177 0.8× 90 0.7× 10 957
Benoît Saussol France 17 958 0.8× 550 0.9× 183 0.3× 130 0.6× 107 0.8× 37 1.1k
M. H. McAndrew United States 5 504 0.4× 308 0.5× 189 0.3× 190 0.8× 92 0.7× 9 774
Tomasz Downarowicz Poland 16 774 0.6× 257 0.4× 336 0.6× 261 1.2× 40 0.3× 72 892

Countries citing papers authored by Louis Block

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Fields of papers citing papers by Louis Block

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Louis Block

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Block, Louis, et al.. (2014). Topological conjugacy, transitivity, and patterns. Topology and its Applications. 167. 53–61. 4 indexed citations
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Keesling, James & Louis Block. (2004). Topological Entropy and Adding Machine Maps. Houston journal of mathematics. 30(4). 1103–1114. 2 indexed citations
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Block, Louis & James Keesling. (2003). A characterization of adding machine maps. Topology and its Applications. 140(2-3). 151–161. 56 indexed citations
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Block, Louis, Ethan M. Coven, Leo Jonker, & Michał Misiurewicz. (1989). Primary Cycles on the Circle. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 311(1). 323–323. 1 indexed citations
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Block, Louis, Ethan M. Coven, Leo Jonker, & Michał Misiurewicz. (1989). Primary cycles on the circle. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 311(1). 323–335. 3 indexed citations
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Block, Louis & Ethan M. Coven. (1987). Topological conjugacy and transitivity for a class of piecewise monotone maps of the interval. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 300(1). 297–306. 36 indexed citations
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Block, Louis & Ethan M. Coven. (1986). Maps of the Interval with Every Point Chain Recurrent. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 98(3). 513–513. 2 indexed citations
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Block, Louis & Ethan M. Coven. (1986). Maps of the interval with every point chain recurrent. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 98(3). 513–515. 4 indexed citations
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Block, Louis & John E. Franke. (1985). Isolated chain recurrent points for one-dimensional maps. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 94(4). 728–730. 2 indexed citations
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Block, Louis & John E. Franke. (1984). The chain recurrent set for maps of the circle. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 92(4). 597–603. 1 indexed citations
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Block, Louis & John E. Franke. (1983). The Chain Recurrent Set for Maps of the Interval. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 87(4). 723–723. 6 indexed citations
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Block, Louis & John E. Franke. (1983). The chain recurrent set for maps of the interval. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 87(4). 723–727. 11 indexed citations
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Block, Louis. (1980). Periodic orbits of continuous mappings of the circle. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 260(2). 553–562. 19 indexed citations
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Block, Louis. (1980). Periodic Orbits of Continuous Mappings of the Circle. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 260(2). 553–553. 10 indexed citations
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Block, Louis. (1978). Continuous maps of the interval with finite nonwandering set. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 240(0). 221–230. 22 indexed citations
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Block, Louis. (1977). An example where topological entropy is continuous. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 231(1). 201–213. 6 indexed citations
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Block, Louis. (1977). An Example Where Topological Entropy is Continuous. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 231(1). 201–201. 2 indexed citations
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Block, Louis. (1977). The periodic points of Morse-Smale endomorphisms of the circle. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 226(0). 77–88. 4 indexed citations
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Block, Louis. (1975). Morse-Smale endomorphisms of the circle. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 48(2). 457–457. 4 indexed citations
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Block, Louis. (1975). Diffeomorphisms obtained from endomorphisms. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 214(0). 403–413. 16 indexed citations

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