Wilbur Whitten

428 total citations
25 papers, 230 citations indexed

About

Wilbur Whitten is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wilbur Whitten has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 230 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Geometry and Topology, 10 papers in Mathematical Physics and 9 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Wilbur Whitten's work include Geometric and Algebraic Topology (17 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (9 papers) and semigroups and automata theory (6 papers). Wilbur Whitten is often cited by papers focused on Geometric and Algebraic Topology (17 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (9 papers) and semigroups and automata theory (6 papers). Wilbur Whitten collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and United Kingdom. Wilbur Whitten's co-authors include José María Montesinos-Amilibia, F. González-Acuña, Daniel S. Silver, Hugh M. Hilden, María Teresa Lozano, Wolfgang Heil and R. A. Litherland and has published in prestigious journals such as Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Inventiones mathematicae and Pacific Journal of Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Wilbur Whitten

21 papers receiving 149 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wilbur Whitten United States	9	191	145	54	44	32	25	230
C. Kearton United Kingdom	10	240 1.3×	162 1.1×	35 0.6×	51 1.2×	13 0.4×	35	261
José María Montesinos Spain	7	159 0.8×	112 0.8×	29 0.5×	51 1.2×	22 0.7×	23	187
F. González-Acuña Mexico	8	209 1.1×	171 1.2×	51 0.9×	52 1.2×	21 0.7×	39	229
Cameron Gordon United States	5	157 0.8×	107 0.7×	34 0.6×	59 1.3×	16 0.5×	13	176
William Kazez United States	10	255 1.3×	188 1.3×	47 0.9×	69 1.6×	49 1.5×	20	275
Patrick M. Gilmer United States	13	365 1.9×	301 2.1×	86 1.6×	60 1.4×	37 1.2×	34	413
G. A. Swarup India	10	300 1.6×	242 1.7×	71 1.3×	64 1.5×	64 2.0×	37	338
José María Montesinos-Amilibia Spain	10	245 1.3×	197 1.4×	43 0.8×	83 1.9×	51 1.6×	37	307
Yoshiyuki Yokota Japan	12	316 1.7×	208 1.4×	64 1.2×	141 3.2×	23 0.7×	25	327
Bert Wiest France	10	255 1.3×	183 1.3×	96 1.8×	75 1.7×	12 0.4×	24	296

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Heil, Wolfgang & Wilbur Whitten. (1994). The Seifert Fiber Space Conjecture and Torus Theorem for Nonorientable 3-Manifolds. Canadian Mathematical Bulletin. 37(4). 482–489. 4 indexed citations

González-Acuña, F., R. A. Litherland, & Wilbur Whitten. (1994). Co-Hopficity of Seifert-bundle groups. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 341(1). 143–155. 7 indexed citations

González-Acuña, F. & Wilbur Whitten. (1992). Imbeddings of three-manifold groups. Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society. 99(474). 0–0. 21 indexed citations

Whitten, Wilbur. (1992). RECOGNIZING NONORIENTABLE SEIFERT BUNDLES. Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications. 1(4). 471–475. 4 indexed citations

Whitten, Wilbur. (1987). Knot complements and groups. Topology. 26(1). 41–44. 19 indexed citations

Hilden, Hugh M., et al.. (1987). On universal groups and three-manifolds. Inventiones mathematicae. 87(3). 441–456. 19 indexed citations

Montesinos-Amilibia, José María & Wilbur Whitten. (1986). Constructions of two-fold branched covering spaces. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 125(2). 415–446. 31 indexed citations

Whitten, Wilbur. (1986). Rigidity among prime-knot complements. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 14(2). 299–300. 2 indexed citations

Whitten, Wilbur, et al.. (1978). Groups and Complements of Knots. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 30(6). 1284–1295. 16 indexed citations

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Whitten, Wilbur. (1974). Characterizations of knots and links. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 80(6). 1265–1271. 3 indexed citations

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Whitten, Wilbur. (1974). Algebraic and geometric characterizations of knots. Inventiones mathematicae. 26(4). 259–270. 8 indexed citations

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Whitten, Wilbur. (1973). Isotopy types of knot spanning surfaces. Topology. 12(4). 373–380. 18 indexed citations

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Whitten, Wilbur. (1972). Imbedding Fibered Knot Groups. American Journal of Mathematics. 94(3). 771–771. 2 indexed citations

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Whitten, Wilbur. (1972). Surgically Transforming Links into Noninvertible Knots. American Journal of Mathematics. 94(4). 1269–1269. 6 indexed citations

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Whitten, Wilbur. (1972). Surgically transforming links into noninvertible knots. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 78(1). 99–103. 2 indexed citations

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Whitten, Wilbur. (1972). Fibered Knots Through T-Surgery. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 34(1). 293–293. 1 indexed citations

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Whitten, Wilbur. (1971). On prime noninvertible links. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society. 5(1). 127–130. 2 indexed citations

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Whitten, Wilbur. (1970). On noninvertible links with invertible proper sublinks. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 26(2). 341–346. 3 indexed citations

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Whitten, Wilbur. (1970). Some intricate noninvertible links. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 76(5). 1100–1103.

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Whitten, Wilbur. (1969). Symmetries of links. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 135(0). 213–222. 7 indexed citations

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