Péter Major

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
40 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Péter Major is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Finance and Numerical Analysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Péter Major has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Mathematical Physics, 14 papers in Finance and 10 papers in Numerical Analysis. Recurrent topics in Péter Major's work include Stochastic processes and financial applications (13 papers), Mathematical Approximation and Integration (10 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (7 papers). Péter Major is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and financial applications (13 papers), Mathematical Approximation and Integration (10 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (7 papers). Péter Major collaborates with scholars based in Hungary, Slovakia and Russia. Péter Major's co-authors include R. L. Dobrushin, Péter Breuer, Lídia Rejtö, Pavel Bleher, Gábor Tusnády, János Komlós, Senya Shlosman, Gábor Halász, Zheming Cheng and Joel L. Lebowitz and has published in prestigious journals such as The Annals of Statistics, Communications in Mathematical Physics and Lecture notes in mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Péter Major

40 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

An approximation of partial sums of independent RV's, and... 1975 2026 1992 2009 1976 1975 200 400 600
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. An approximation of partial sums of independent RV's, and the sample DF. II
    1976 645 citations Péter Major et al. Probability Theory and Related Fields profile →
  2. An approximation of partial sums of independent RV'-s, and the sample DF. I
    1975 503 citations Péter Major et al. Probability Theory and Related Fields profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Péter Major Hungary 18 1.1k 1.0k 747 458 397 40 2.5k
A. N. Shiryayev Russia 12 1.3k 1.2× 565 0.5× 444 0.6× 454 1.0× 392 1.0× 15 2.7k
Richard C. Bradley United States 21 656 0.6× 803 0.8× 695 0.9× 583 1.3× 442 1.1× 84 2.4k
R. Liptser Israel 19 1.8k 1.6× 618 0.6× 596 0.8× 522 1.1× 426 1.1× 81 3.5k
Miklós Csörgő Canada 26 1.4k 1.3× 1.9k 1.8× 681 0.9× 910 2.0× 514 1.3× 169 3.5k
Evarist Giné United States 30 864 0.8× 1.9k 1.9× 584 0.8× 595 1.3× 947 2.4× 75 3.3k
A. V. Skorokhod United States 20 1.2k 1.0× 483 0.5× 940 1.3× 472 1.0× 263 0.7× 64 2.9k
R. M. Dudley United States 27 735 0.6× 999 1.0× 1.0k 1.4× 478 1.0× 774 1.9× 74 3.7k
Walter Philipp United States 25 657 0.6× 568 0.5× 1.0k 1.4× 506 1.1× 360 0.9× 97 2.2k
И. А. Ибрагимов Russia 27 1.4k 1.3× 1.9k 1.8× 1.5k 2.0× 850 1.9× 835 2.1× 136 4.7k
Stamatis Cambanis United States 24 656 0.6× 622 0.6× 236 0.3× 316 0.7× 321 0.8× 88 1.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Major, Péter. (2015). Sharp tail distribution estimates for the supremum of a class of sums of i.i.d. random variables. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 126(1). 118–137. 1 indexed citations
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Major, Péter. (2015). Sharp estimate on the supremum of a class of sums of small i.i.d. random variables. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 126(1). 100–117. 1 indexed citations
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Major, Péter. (2007). On a Multivariate Version of Bernstein's Inequality. Electronic Journal of Probability. 12(none). 21 indexed citations
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Major, Péter. (2005). An estimate on the supremum of a nice class of stochastic integrals and U-statistics. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 134(3). 489–537. 18 indexed citations
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Major, Péter. (1999). Random Variables When Their Order Tends to Infinity. The Annals of Probability. 27(4). 1980–2010. 6 indexed citations
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Major, Péter. (1990). A Note on the Approximation of the Uniform Empirical Process. The Annals of Probability. 18(1). 14 indexed citations
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Bleher, Pavel & Péter Major. (1989). The large-scale limit of Dyson's hierarchical vector-valued model at low temperatures. the marginal case $$c = \sqrt 2$$. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 125(1). 43–69. 5 indexed citations
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Bleher, Pavel & Péter Major. (1988). The large-scale limit of Dyson's hierarchical vector valued model at low temperatures. The non-gaussian case. Part I : limit theorem for the average spin. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 49(1). 7–85. 5 indexed citations
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Major, Péter. (1988). On the set visited once by a random walk. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 77(1). 117–128. 2 indexed citations
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Major, Péter. (1988). On the tail behaviour of the distribution function of multiple stochastic integrals. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 78(3). 419–435. 5 indexed citations
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Major, Péter & Lídia Rejtö. (1988). Strong Embedding of the Estimator of the Distribution Function under Random Censorship. The Annals of Statistics. 16(3). 68 indexed citations
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Bleher, Pavel & Péter Major. (1987). Critical Phenomena and Universal Exponents in Statistical Physics. On Dyson's Hierarchical Model. The Annals of Probability. 15(2). 32 indexed citations
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Bleher, Pavel & Péter Major. (1984). Renormalization of Dyson's hierarchical vector valued ?4 model at low temperatures. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 95(4). 487–532. 7 indexed citations
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Breuer, Péter & Péter Major. (1983). Central limit theorems for non-linear functionals of Gaussian fields. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 13(3). 425–441. 252 indexed citations
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Major, Péter & Senya Shlosman. (1979). A local limit theorem for the convolution of probability measures on a compact connected group. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 50(2). 137–148. 7 indexed citations
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Major, Péter. (1978). On the invariance principle for sums of independent identically distributed random variables. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 8(4). 487–517. 51 indexed citations
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Halász, Gábor & Péter Major. (1977). Reconstructing the Distribution from Partial Sums of Samples. The Annals of Probability. 5(6). 5 indexed citations
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Major, Péter. (1976). Approximation of partial sums of i.i.d.r.v.s when the summands have only two moments. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 35(3). 221–229. 38 indexed citations
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Major, Péter, János Komlós, & Gábor Tusnády. (1975). Weak convergence and embedding. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 149–166. 27 indexed citations
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Major, Péter, et al.. (1973). A limit theorem for the Robbins-Monro approximation. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 27(1). 79–86. 27 indexed citations

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