Walter Feit

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Walter Feit is a scholar working on Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Feit has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, 26 papers in Geometry and Topology and 23 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Walter Feit's work include Finite Group Theory Research (33 papers), Advanced Algebra and Geometry (20 papers) and Coding theory and cryptography (18 papers). Walter Feit is often cited by papers focused on Finite Group Theory Research (33 papers), Advanced Algebra and Geometry (20 papers) and Coding theory and cryptography (18 papers). Walter Feit collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Slovakia. Walter Feit's co-authors include John Thompson, Graham Higman, John G. Thompson, John F. Thompson, Richard Brauer, Gary M. Seitz, N. J. Fine, Jacques Tits, Leonard L. Scott and Roger C. Lyndon and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and Annals of Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Walter Feit

67 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Chapter I, from Solvability of groups of odd order, Pacif... 1963 2026 1984 2005 1963 100 200 300
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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. Chapter I, from Solvability of groups of odd order, Pacific J. Math, vol. 13, no. 3 (1963
    1963 363 citations Walter Feit et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Walter Feit United States 22 1.6k 857 794 741 456 78 2.1k
Richard Brauer United States 25 1.5k 1.0× 648 0.8× 761 1.0× 769 1.0× 376 0.8× 63 2.1k
Helmut Wielandt Germany 17 1.4k 0.9× 925 1.1× 919 1.2× 512 0.7× 206 0.5× 39 2.1k
Michael Aschbacher United States 27 2.7k 1.7× 1.6k 1.8× 1.2k 1.5× 1.4k 1.8× 935 2.1× 131 3.2k
B. A. F. Wehrfritz United Kingdom 14 1.4k 0.9× 432 0.5× 360 0.5× 976 1.3× 592 1.3× 186 2.0k
Reinhold Baer Germany 21 835 0.5× 331 0.4× 346 0.4× 469 0.6× 194 0.4× 73 1.6k
Gary M. Seitz United States 31 2.6k 1.7× 1.3k 1.6× 845 1.1× 1.3k 1.7× 1.2k 2.6× 80 2.9k
Marston Conder New Zealand 23 1.3k 0.8× 501 0.6× 558 0.7× 812 1.1× 353 0.8× 143 1.6k
Brian Mortimer Canada 6 1.1k 0.7× 778 0.9× 686 0.9× 405 0.5× 174 0.4× 11 1.4k
D. G. Higman United States 16 653 0.4× 365 0.4× 438 0.6× 349 0.5× 163 0.4× 30 949
Jan Saxl United Kingdom 29 2.4k 1.5× 1.6k 1.8× 1.2k 1.5× 813 1.1× 609 1.3× 88 2.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Feit, Walter. (2000). A Method for Computing Symmetric and Related Polynomials. Journal of Algebra. 234(2). 540–544. 1 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (2000). Some Diophantine equations of the form 𝑥²-𝑝𝑦²=𝑧. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 129(2). 623–625. 7 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1990). Finite Projective Planes and a Question about Primes. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 108(2). 561–561. 7 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1990). Finite projective planes and a question about primes. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 108(2). 561–564. 13 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1989). Some Galois groups over number fields. Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society New Series. 20(1). 55–59. 1 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1988). On large Zsigmondy primes. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 102(1). 29–36. 43 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1986). Ã5 and Ã7 are Galois groups over number fields. Journal of Algebra. 104(2). 231–260. 18 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter, et al.. (1980). On the projective characters in characteristic 2 of the groups SL3(2m) and SU3(2m). Journal of Algebra. 63(1). 124–142. 8 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1978). Some lattices over Q(√−3). Journal of Algebra. 52(1). 248–263. 22 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter & John H. Lindsey. (1978). Complex linear groups of degree less than 212 p — 3. Journal of Algebra. 52(1). 145–167. 1 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1976). Divisibility of projective modules of finite groups. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. 8(2). 183–185. 3 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter, Roger C. Lyndon, & Leonard L. Scott. (1975). A remark about permutations. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 18(2). 234–235. 17 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1975). On certain rational quadratic forms. Linear and Multilinear Algebra. 3(1-2). 25–32. 2 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1974). A self-dual even (96, 48, 16) code (Corresp.). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 20(1). 136–138. 15 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1973). On symmetric balanced incomplete block designs with doubly transitive automorphism groups. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 14(2). 221–247. 14 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter & Graham Higman. (1964). The nonexistence of certain generalized polygons. Journal of Algebra. 1(2). 114–131. 225 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter & John G. Thompson. (1962). Finite Groups which Contain a Selfcentralizing Subgroup of Order 3. Nagoya Mathematical Journal. 21. 185–197. 63 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1960). A Theorem on Factorizable Groups. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 11(4). 658–658. 2 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1960). A theorem on factorizable groups. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 11(4). 658–659. 9 indexed citations
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Feit, Walter. (1953). The degree formula for the skew-representations of the symmetric group. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 4(5). 740–744. 6 indexed citations

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