W. Forrest Stinespring

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

W. Forrest Stinespring is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Forrest Stinespring has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 7 papers in Applied Mathematics and 6 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in W. Forrest Stinespring's work include Matrix Theory and Algorithms (6 papers), Algebraic and Geometric Analysis (4 papers) and advanced mathematical theories (3 papers). W. Forrest Stinespring is often cited by papers focused on Matrix Theory and Algorithms (6 papers), Algebraic and Geometric Analysis (4 papers) and advanced mathematical theories (3 papers). W. Forrest Stinespring collaborates with scholars based in United States. W. Forrest Stinespring's co-authors include David Shale and Edward Nelson and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Mathematics, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and Journal of Functional Analysis.

In The Last Decade

W. Forrest Stinespring

15 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Positive functions on 𝐶*-algebras

1955 606 citations W. Forrest Stinespring Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society profile →
Positive Functions on C ∗ -Algebras

1955 480 citations W. Forrest Stinespring Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. Forrest Stinespring United States	9	744	533	518	439	399	15	1.5k
Erik M. Alfsen Norway	17	897 1.2×	213 0.4×	148 0.3×	627 1.4×	327 0.8×	41	1.5k
E. C. Titchmarsh United Kingdom	13	923 1.2×	187 0.4×	93 0.2×	1.2k 2.7×	652 1.6×	35	2.1k
Erling Størmer Norway	28	1.7k 2.3×	724 1.4×	572 1.1×	1.4k 3.2×	434 1.1×	93	2.7k
Marius Junge United States	22	925 1.2×	450 0.8×	427 0.8×	267 0.6×	569 1.4×	105	1.5k
W. Pusz Poland	7	216 0.3×	272 0.5×	180 0.3×	169 0.4×	150 0.4×	12	765
Shôichirô Sakai United States	17	759 1.0×	127 0.2×	51 0.1×	689 1.6×	227 0.6×	52	1.1k
William Arveson United States	24	2.4k 3.2×	218 0.4×	175 0.3×	1.7k 4.0×	1.4k 3.6×	64	3.1k
David W. Kribs Canada	21	202 0.3×	637 1.2×	810 1.6×	182 0.4×	172 0.4×	80	1.2k
Paul R. Chernoff United States	16	888 1.2×	182 0.3×	30 0.1×	209 0.5×	418 1.0×	58	1.3k
Claude Chevalley United States	11	545 0.7×	57 0.1×	129 0.2×	507 1.2×	315 0.8×	13	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by W. Forrest Stinespring

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Forrest Stinespring

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All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Shale, David & W. Forrest Stinespring. (1970). Wiener processes II. Journal of Functional Analysis. 5(3). 334–353. 8 indexed citations

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Shale, David & W. Forrest Stinespring. (1968). Wiener processes. Journal of Functional Analysis. 2(4). 378–394. 8 indexed citations

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Shale, David & W. Forrest Stinespring. (1967). The quantum harmonic oscillator with hyperbolic phase space. Journal of Functional Analysis. 1(4). 492–502. 4 indexed citations

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Shale, David & W. Forrest Stinespring. (1966). Continuously splittable distributions in Hilbert space. Illinois Journal of Mathematics. 10(4). 2 indexed citations

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Shale, David & W. Forrest Stinespring. (1966). Integration over Non-Euclidean Geometries of Infinite Dimension. Indiana University Mathematics Journal. 16(2). 135–146. 3 indexed citations

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Shale, David & W. Forrest Stinespring. (1964). States of the Clifford Algebra. Annals of Mathematics. 80(2). 365–365. 81 indexed citations

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Stinespring, W. Forrest. (1959). Integration theorems for gages and duality for unimodular groups. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 90(1). 15–56. 87 indexed citations

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Stinespring, W. Forrest. (1959). Integrability of Fourier transforms for unimodular Lie groups. Duke Mathematical Journal. 26(1). 7 indexed citations

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Nelson, Edward & W. Forrest Stinespring. (1959). Representation of Elliptic Operators in an Enveloping Algebra. American Journal of Mathematics. 81(3). 547–547. 100 indexed citations

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Stinespring, W. Forrest. (1959). Integration Theorems For Gages and Duality for Unimodular Groups. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 90(1). 15–15. 35 indexed citations

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Stinespring, W. Forrest. (1958). A semi-simple matrix group is of type 𝐼. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 9(6). 965–967. 4 indexed citations

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Stinespring, W. Forrest. (1958). A Sufficient Condition for an Integral Operator to Have a Trace.. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal). 1958(200). 200–207. 26 indexed citations

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Stinespring, W. Forrest. (1958). A Semi-Simple Matrix Group is of Type I. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 9(6). 965–965. 2 indexed citations

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Stinespring, W. Forrest. (1955). Positive functions on 𝐶*-algebras. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 6(2). 211–216. 606 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stinespring, W. Forrest. (1955). Positive Functions on C ∗ -Algebras. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 6(2). 211–211. 480 indexed citations breakdown →

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