Sylvain E. Cappell

2.5k total citations
73 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Sylvain E. Cappell is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvain E. Cappell has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Geometry and Topology, 48 papers in Mathematical Physics and 9 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Sylvain E. Cappell's work include Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (34 papers), Geometric and Algebraic Topology (29 papers) and Advanced Operator Algebra Research (13 papers). Sylvain E. Cappell is often cited by papers focused on Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (34 papers), Geometric and Algebraic Topology (29 papers) and Advanced Operator Algebra Research (13 papers). Sylvain E. Cappell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Hong Kong. Sylvain E. Cappell's co-authors include Julius L. Shaneson, Edward Y. Miller, Ronnie Lee, Laurenţiu Maxim, Shmuel Weinberger, Jacob E. Goodman, Markus Banagl, Daniel Ruberman, Anatoly Libgober and Mark Steinberger and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annals of Mathematics and Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Sylvain E. Cappell

68 papers receiving 959 citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Sylvain E. Cappell 935 898 225 195 183 73 1.2k
Julius L. Shaneson 786 0.8× 682 0.8× 137 0.6× 156 0.8× 154 0.8× 55 996
C. B. Thomas 742 0.8× 662 0.7× 149 0.7× 129 0.7× 110 0.6× 53 939
Benson Farb 1.6k 1.8× 1.3k 1.5× 279 1.2× 225 1.2× 291 1.6× 65 1.8k
W. C. Hsiang 770 0.8× 797 0.9× 183 0.8× 294 1.5× 106 0.6× 50 1.0k
Richard Lashof 640 0.7× 595 0.7× 270 1.2× 224 1.1× 105 0.6× 39 977
Emery Thomas 525 0.6× 479 0.5× 122 0.5× 251 1.3× 121 0.7× 56 789
Michael Kapovich 1.1k 1.1× 833 0.9× 288 1.3× 53 0.3× 101 0.6× 73 1.3k
George W. Whitehead 747 0.8× 799 0.9× 106 0.5× 377 1.9× 133 0.7× 16 1.0k
Edward Bierstone 974 1.0× 623 0.7× 407 1.8× 317 1.6× 340 1.9× 53 1.3k
Roger Godement 583 0.6× 748 0.8× 209 0.9× 413 2.1× 144 0.8× 28 1.1k

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All Works

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Cappell, Sylvain E., Shmuel Weinberger, & Min Yan. (2013). Closed aspherical manifolds with center. Journal of Topology. 6(4). 1009–1018. 3 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E., et al.. (2010). Equivariant characteristic classes of complex algebraic varieties. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E., Laurenţiu Maxim, Jörg Schürmann, & Julius L. Shaneson. (2010). Characteristic classes of complex hypersurfaces. Advances in Mathematics. 225(5). 2616–2647. 10 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E., Anatoly Libgober, Laurenţiu Maxim, & Julius L. Shaneson. (2008). Hodge genera and characteristic classes Of complex algebraic varieties. 15. 1–7. 6 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E., Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, & Edward Y. Miller. (2006). Cohomology of harmonic forms on Riemannian manifolds with boundary. Forum Mathematicum. 18(6). 12 indexed citations
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Banagl, Markus, Sylvain E. Cappell, & Julius L. Shaneson. (2003). Computing twisted signatures and L-classes of stratified spaces. Mathematische Annalen. 326(3). 589–623. 16 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E., et al.. (2002). A perturbative SU(3) Casson invariant. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 77(3). 491–523. 4 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E., Ronnie Lee, & Edward Y. Miller. (1999). Self-adjoint elliptic operators and manifold decompositions Part III: Determinant line bundles and Lagrangian intersection. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 52(5). 543–611. 5 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E., Jacob E. Goodman, János Pach, Richard Pollack, & Micha Sharir. (1994). Common Tangents and Common Transversals. Advances in Mathematics. 106(2). 198–215. 13 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E. & Jacob E. Goodman. (1988). Common tangents and common transversals. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 11 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E. & Shmuel Weinberger. (1988). Which H-spaces are manifolds? I. Topology. 27(4). 377–386. 2 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E. & Shmuel Weinberger. (1987). Homology propagation of group actions. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 40(6). 723–744. 12 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E. & Julius L. Shaneson. (1978). A note on the Smith conjecture. Topology. 17(1). 105–107. 4 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E. & Julius L. Shaneson. (1976). Construction of some new four-dimensional manifolds. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 82(1). 69–70. 2 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E. & Julius L. Shaneson. (1975). Invariants of 3-manifolds. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 81(3). 559–562. 9 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E. & Julius L. Shaneson. (1975). Close Codimension Two Embeddings of Even Dimensional Manifolds. American Journal of Mathematics. 97(3). 733–733. 3 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E.. (1974). On connected sums of manifolds. Topology. 13(4). 395–400. 18 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E.. (1973). Splitting obstructions for Hermitian forms and manifolds with 𝑍₂⊂𝜋₁. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 79(5). 909–913. 7 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E. & Julius L. Shaneson. (1973). Topological knots and knot cobordism. Topology. 12(1). 33–40. 15 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E. & Julius L. Shaneson. (1973). Submanifolds of codimension two and homology equivalent manifolds. Annales de l’institut Fourier. 23(2). 19–30. 2 indexed citations

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