Michel Ledoux

10.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
114 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Michel Ledoux is a scholar working on Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Physics and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Michel Ledoux has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Applied Mathematics, 36 papers in Mathematical Physics and 22 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Michel Ledoux's work include Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (23 papers), Point processes and geometric inequalities (21 papers) and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (21 papers). Michel Ledoux is often cited by papers focused on Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (23 papers), Point processes and geometric inequalities (21 papers) and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (21 papers). Michel Ledoux collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Michel Ledoux's co-authors include Michel Talagrand, Dominique Bakry, Sergey G. Bobkov, Ivan Gentil, Thierry Coulhon, Laurent Saloff‐Coste, Zhongmin Qian, Brian Rider, Mireille Capitaine and Elton P. Hsu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

In The Last Decade

Michel Ledoux

109 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

The Concentration of Measure Phenomenon 1991 2026 2002 2014 2005 1991 2013 250 500 750
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. The Concentration of Measure Phenomenon
    2005 882 citations Michel Ledoux Mathematical surveys and monographs profile →
  2. Probability in Banach Spaces: Isoperimetry and Processes
    1991 639 citations Michel Ledoux, Michel Talagrand profile →
  3. Analysis and Geometry of Markov Diffusion Operators
    2013 518 citations Dominique Bakry, Ivan Gentil 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
Michel Ledoux France 30 2.1k 1.3k 1.3k 640 599 114 4.6k
Michel Talagrand France 39 1.8k 0.8× 2.8k 2.1× 2.3k 1.8× 996 1.6× 1.2k 2.1× 237 7.4k
Peter E. Kloeden Germany 39 1.7k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 1.5k 1.1× 414 0.6× 620 1.0× 302 6.5k
G. A. Garreau United Kingdom 2 2.3k 1.1× 1.7k 1.3× 529 0.4× 895 1.4× 531 0.9× 5 5.9k
Daniel W. Stroock United States 30 1.0k 0.5× 1.8k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 277 0.4× 309 0.5× 82 4.2k
R. M. Dudley United States 27 684 0.3× 1.0k 0.8× 999 0.8× 413 0.6× 774 1.3× 74 3.7k
В. И. Богачев Russia 28 1.7k 0.8× 1.8k 1.4× 482 0.4× 457 0.7× 202 0.3× 226 3.9k
S. R. S. Varadhan United States 38 1.4k 0.7× 3.4k 2.6× 1.6k 1.2× 276 0.4× 532 0.9× 98 7.0k
Christian Berg Denmark 25 1.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 350 0.3× 374 0.6× 302 0.5× 136 3.0k
И. А. Ибрагимов Russia 27 659 0.3× 1.5k 1.2× 1.9k 1.5× 237 0.4× 835 1.4× 136 4.7k
Arnaud Guillin France 25 979 0.5× 644 0.5× 906 0.7× 141 0.2× 254 0.4× 92 2.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michel Ledoux

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michel Ledoux

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ledoux, Michel & Abdelkhalak El Hami. (2021). Heat Transfer 2.
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Ledoux, Michel, et al.. (2019). Quantitative normal approximation of linear statistics of β-ensembles. Aaltodoc (Aalto University). 19 indexed citations
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Ledoux, Michel, et al.. (2017). Stein's method for normal approximation of linear statistics of beta-ensembles. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Ledoux, Michel. (2017). A Law of the Iterated Logarithm for Directed Last Passage Percolation. Journal of Theoretical Probability. 31(4). 2366–2375. 6 indexed citations
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Ledoux, Michel & Ionel Popescu. (2013). The one dimensional free Poincaré inequality. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 365(9). 4811–4849. 2 indexed citations
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Houdré, Christian, et al.. (2011). Concentration, functional inequalities and isoperimetry : International Workshop on Concentration, Functional Inequalities and Isoperimetry, October 29-November 1, 2009, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. American Mathematical Society eBooks.
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Bakry, Dominique, Michel Ledoux, & Feng‐Yu Wang. (2007). Perturbations of functional inequalities using growth conditions. Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. 87(4). 394–407. 12 indexed citations
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Cohen, Serge, et al.. (2007). A general framework for simulation of fractional fields. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 118(9). 1489–1517. 11 indexed citations
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Ledoux, Michel. (2005). The Concentration of Measure Phenomenon. Mathematical surveys and monographs. 882 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ledoux, Michel. (2005). A (one-dimensional) free Brunn–Minkowski inequality. Comptes Rendus Mathématique. 340(4). 301–304. 7 indexed citations
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Ledoux, Michel, et al.. (2005). Séminaire de Probabilités XXXVIII. Lecture notes in mathematics. 10 indexed citations
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Ledoux, Michel, et al.. (2002). Large deviations and support theorem for diffusion processes via rough paths. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 102(2). 265–283. 70 indexed citations
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Bobkov, Sergey G., Ivan Gentil, & Michel Ledoux. (2001). Hypercontractivity of Hamilton–Jacobi equations. Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. 80(7). 669–696. 187 indexed citations
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Ledoux, Michel. (2000). The geometry of Markov diffusion generators. Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques. 9(2). 305–366. 132 indexed citations
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Bobkov, Sergey G. & Michel Ledoux. (1998). On Modified Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities for Bernoulli and Poisson Measures. Journal of Functional Analysis. 156(2). 347–365. 63 indexed citations
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Ledoux, Michel. (1993). Inégalités isopérimétriques en analyse et probabilités. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 35. 343–375. 4 indexed citations
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Ledoux, Michel & Michel Talagrand. (1988). Un critère sur les petites boules dans le théorème limite central. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 77(1). 29–47. 11 indexed citations
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Ledoux, Michel. (1986). The law of the iterated logarithm in uniformly convex Banach spaces. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 294(1). 351–365. 2 indexed citations
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Lapicque, François, B. Calès, J. Lédé, et al.. (1985). Research on the production of hydrogen by direct thermal dissociation of water vapor. 4 indexed citations
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Cairoli, R. & Michel Ledoux. (1984). Une topologie fine associée au produit de deux processus markoviens. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 20(4). 299–307. 2 indexed citations

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