Philippe Di Francesco

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
104 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Philippe Di Francesco is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippe Di Francesco has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Geometry and Topology, 36 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 34 papers in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. Recurrent topics in Philippe Di Francesco's work include Algebraic structures and combinatorial models (53 papers), Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics (34 papers) and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (30 papers). Philippe Di Francesco is often cited by papers focused on Algebraic structures and combinatorial models (53 papers), Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics (34 papers) and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (30 papers). Philippe Di Francesco collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Philippe Di Francesco's co-authors include Pierre Mathieu, David Sénéchal, Jean-Bernard Zuber, Emmanuel Guitter, Hubert Saleur, Jinho Baik, Gernot Akemann, David Kutasov, Paul Zinn-Justin and Jérémie Bouttier and has published in prestigious journals such as Physics Reports, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Philippe Di Francesco

104 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Conformal Field Theory

1997 2.0k citations Philippe Di Francesco, Pierre Mathieu et al. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
The Oxford Handbook of Random Matrix Theory

2015 343 citations Philippe Di Francesco et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philippe Di Francesco France	27	1.8k	1.6k	1.5k	1.2k	1.2k	104	4.5k
Jean-Bernard Zuber France	32	2.1k 1.2×	2.8k 1.8×	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	80	5.4k
Vincent Pasquier France	33	1.5k 0.8×	2.3k 1.5×	1.6k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	1.9k 1.6×	75	6.2k
A. Polyakov Russia	12	2.1k 1.2×	3.1k 2.0×	2.0k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	2.0k 1.6×	21	5.9k
A. A. Belavin Russia	25	3.0k 1.7×	4.4k 2.8×	2.9k 2.0×	1.6k 1.3×	1.6k 1.4×	112	7.6k
Vladimir Kazakov France	43	1.8k 1.0×	4.5k 2.9×	3.5k 2.4×	808 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	164	7.4k
V. E. Korepin United States	42	2.3k 1.3×	933 0.6×	2.1k 1.4×	4.9k 3.9×	3.1k 2.6×	190	7.4k
V. Rittenberg Germany	31	1.4k 0.8×	834 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	989 0.8×	132	3.2k
Tetsuji Miwa Japan	39	4.5k 2.5×	805 0.5×	5.0k 3.4×	1.1k 0.9×	600 0.5×	98	7.2k
Lyudvig Dmitrievich Faddeev Russia	20	1.4k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	2.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.0×	517 0.4×	54	4.2k
Tohru Eguchi Japan	33	1.6k 0.9×	3.8k 2.4×	2.0k 1.3×	535 0.4×	397 0.3×	86	5.1k

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All Works

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Francesco, Philippe Di & Rinat Kedem. (2024). Macdonald Duality and the proof of the Quantum Q-system conjecture. Selecta Mathematica. 30(2). 1 indexed citations

Francesco, Philippe Di, et al.. (2024). Ruijsenaars wavefunctions as modular group matrix coefficients. Letters in Mathematical Physics. 114(6). 136–136. 1 indexed citations

Francesco, Philippe Di & Emmanuel Guitter. (2018). Arctic curves for paths with arbitrary starting points: a tangent method approach. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 51(35). 355201–355201. 5 indexed citations

Behrend, Roger E., Philippe Di Francesco, & Paul Zinn-Justin. (2012). A doubly-refined enumeration of alternating sign matrices and descending plane partitions. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 120(2). 409–432. 6 indexed citations

Behrend, Roger E., Philippe Di Francesco, & Paul Zinn-Justin. (2011). On the weighted enumeration of alternating sign matrices and descending plane partitions. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 119(2). 331–363. 21 indexed citations

Francesco, Philippe Di & Rinat Kedem. (2008). Proof of the Combinatorial Kirillov-Reshetikhin Conjecture. International Mathematics Research Notices. 2008. 25 indexed citations

Eynard, Benoît, et al.. (2007). Correlation Functions of Harish-Chandra Integrals over the Orthogonal and the Symplectic Groups. Journal of Statistical Physics. 129(5-6). 885–935. 14 indexed citations

Francesco, Philippe Di & Paul Zinn-Justin. (2007). Quantum Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equation: reflecting boundary conditions and combinatorics. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2007(12). P12009–P12009. 18 indexed citations

Francesco, Philippe Di. (2006). Open boundary Quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation and the weighted enumeration of symmetric plane partitions. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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Francesco, Philippe Di & Paul Zinn-Justin. (2004). Razumov-Stroganov sum rule: a proof based on multi-parameter generalizations. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations

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Francesco, Philippe Di, et al.. (2004). On fully packed loop configurations with four sets of nested arches. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2004(6). P06005–P06005. 9 indexed citations

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Bouttier, Jérémie, Philippe Di Francesco, & Emmanuel Guitter. (2003). Random trees between two walls: exact partition function. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 36(50). 12349–12366. 11 indexed citations

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Francesco, Philippe Di, Emmanuel Guitter, & Charlotte Kristjansen. (2001). Generalized Lorentzian triangulations and the Calogero Hamiltonian. Nuclear Physics B. 608(3). 485–526. 15 indexed citations

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Francesco, Philippe Di, Emmanuel Guitter, & Charlotte Kristjansen. (2000). Generalized Lorentzian Gravity in 1+1D and the Calogero Hamiltonian. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Baulieu, Laurent, Philippe Di Francesco, & Michael R. Douglas. (1999). Strings, Branes and Dualities. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 33 indexed citations

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Francesco, Philippe Di, Emmanuel Guitter, & Charlotte Kristjansen. (1999). Fully packed O (n = 1) model on random Eulerian triangulations. Nuclear Physics B. 549(3). 657–667. 8 indexed citations

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Francesco, Philippe Di, Pierre Mathieu, & David Sénéchal. (1997). Conformal Field Theory. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1988 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bowick, Mark J., Philippe Di Francesco, O. Golinelli, & Emmanuel Guitter. (1996). Discrete Folding. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Francesco, Philippe Di & C. Itzykson. (1993). A generating function for fatgraphs. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 59(2). 117–139. 19 indexed citations

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Bauer, Michel, Philippe Di Francesco, C. Itzykson, & Jean-Bernard Zuber. (1991). Singular vectors of the Virasoro algebra. Physics Letters B. 260(3-4). 323–326. 28 indexed citations

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