Sean Lawton

425 total citations
22 papers, 161 citations indexed

About

Sean Lawton is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Lawton has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 161 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Geometry and Topology, 20 papers in Mathematical Physics and 4 papers in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. Recurrent topics in Sean Lawton's work include Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory (19 papers), Advanced Algebra and Geometry (16 papers) and Geometric and Algebraic Topology (10 papers). Sean Lawton is often cited by papers focused on Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory (19 papers), Advanced Algebra and Geometry (16 papers) and Geometric and Algebraic Topology (10 papers). Sean Lawton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Portugal and India. Sean Lawton's co-authors include Carlos Florentino, Vicente Muñoz, Indranil Biswas, Adam S. Sikora, Jacques Hurtubise, Lisa C. Jeffrey, Carlos Matheus, William M. Goldman and Giovanni Forni and has published in prestigious journals such as Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Pacific Journal of Mathematics and Mathematische Annalen.

In The Last Decade

Sean Lawton

20 papers receiving 145 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Lawton United States	9	157	128	49	5	4	22	161
Stefan Bauer Germany	6	169 1.1×	132 1.0×	33 0.7×	4 0.8×	4 1.0×	18	178
Christine Lescop France	5	104 0.7×	101 0.8×	44 0.9×	8 1.6×	2 0.5×	11	109
Giovanni Mongardi Italy	9	149 0.9×	123 1.0×	25 0.5×	4 0.8×	4 1.0×	24	149
Yankı Lekili United Kingdom	9	116 0.7×	93 0.7×	16 0.3×	7 1.4×	10 2.5×	16	118
Jean‐François Lafont United States	8	136 0.9×	128 1.0×	32 0.7×	12 2.4×	6 1.5×	34	162
Kazuo Habiro Japan	8	160 1.0×	127 1.0×	62 1.3×	14 2.8×	5 1.3×	21	169
Tara Brendle United States	6	92 0.6×	74 0.6×	27 0.6×	12 2.4×	2 0.5×	16	96
Ken’ichi Ohshika Japan	9	156 1.0×	126 1.0×	21 0.4×	14 2.8×	3 0.8×	37	162
Dong Youp Suh South Korea	8	142 0.9×	121 0.9×	69 1.4×	12 2.4×	8 2.0×	29	172
Louis Funar France	7	140 0.9×	120 0.9×	42 0.9×	17 3.4×	2 0.5×	37	153

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20 of 20 papers shown

Forni, Giovanni, William M. Goldman, Sean Lawton, & Carlos Matheus. (2024). Non-ergodicity on SU ( 2 ) and SU ( 3 ) character varieties of the once-punctured torus. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 7. 1099–1130.

Florentino, Carlos & Sean Lawton. (2023). Flawed groups and the topology of character varieties. Topology and its Applications. 341. 108756–108756.

Biswas, Indranil, Jacques Hurtubise, Lisa C. Jeffrey, & Sean Lawton. (2022). Poisson maps between character varieties: gluing and capping. Journal of Symplectic Geometry. 20(6). 1255–1312. 2 indexed citations

Lawton, Sean, et al.. (2022). Dynamics on nilpotent character varieties. Conformal Geometry and Dynamics of the American Mathematical Society. 26(10). 194–207. 1 indexed citations

Lawton, Sean, et al.. (2019). Bad Representations and Homotopy of Character Varieties. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

Lawton, Sean & Adam S. Sikora. (2017). Varieties of Characters. Algebras and Representation Theory. 20(5). 1133–1141. 3 indexed citations

Lawton, Sean, et al.. (2017). Decision problems, complexity, traces, and representations. Groups Geometry and Dynamics. 11(1). 165–188. 6 indexed citations

Lawton, Sean, et al.. (2016). Character varieties of free groups are Gorenstein but not always factorial. Journal of Algebra. 456. 278–293. 3 indexed citations

Lawton, Sean & Vicente Muñoz. (2016). E-polynomial of the SL(3, ℂ)-character variety of free groups. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 282(1). 173–202. 10 indexed citations

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Florentino, Carlos, et al.. (2016). On the homotopy type of free group character varieties. 1 indexed citations

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Biswas, Indranil, et al.. (2015). Fundamental groups of character varieties: surfaces and tori. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 281(1-2). 415–425. 7 indexed citations

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Florentino, Carlos & Sean Lawton. (2014). Topology of character varieties of Abelian groups. Topology and its Applications. 173. 32–58. 19 indexed citations

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Florentino, Carlos, et al.. (2014). Topology of moduli spaces of free group representations in real reductive groups. Forum Mathematicum. 28(2). 275–294. 8 indexed citations

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Florentino, Carlos & Sean Lawton. (2013). In the Tradition of Ahlfors-Bers, VI. Contemporary mathematics - American Mathematical Society. 4 indexed citations

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Florentino, Carlos & Sean Lawton. (2012). Singularities of free group character varieties. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 260(1). 149–179. 19 indexed citations

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Lawton, Sean. (2010). Algebraic independence in SL(3,C) character varieties of free groups. Journal of Algebra. 324(6). 1383–1391. 4 indexed citations

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Lawton, Sean. (2008). Minimal affine coordinates for SL(3,C) character varieties of free groups. Journal of Algebra. 320(10). 3773–3810. 11 indexed citations

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Lawton, Sean. (2008). Poisson geometry of SL(3,ℂ)-character varieties relative to a surface with boundary. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 361(5). 2397–2429. 12 indexed citations

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Lawton, Sean. (2007). Generators, relations and symmetries in pairs of 3×3 unimodular matrices. Journal of Algebra. 313(2). 782–801. 20 indexed citations

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Lawton, Sean. (2006). Relations and Symmetries of SL(3,C)^2//SL(3,C). arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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