2026 David Jerison: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	41	1882	1642	801	652	99	8817

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Mathematics

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Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1985 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David Jerison is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research spans several areas primarily within Mathematics and Computer Science.

The main fields of study in their work include:

Mathematics
Computer Science

The subfields covered by their publications are:

Applied Mathematics
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Materials Chemistry

The main topics investigated in their research include:

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows
Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Numerical methods in inverse problems

Their recent publications include:

Inhomogeneous global minimizers to the one-phase free boundary problem, 2022, Communications in Partial Differential Equations
Filoche et al. Reply:, 2020, Physical Review Letters
The Friedland-Hayman inequality and Caffarelli's contraction theorem, 2021, Journal of Mathematical Physics
On nonminimizing solutions of elliptic free boundary problems, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
Two-phase Free Boundary Problems in Convex Domains, 2020, Journal of Geometric Analysis

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

Daniela De Silva
Thomas Beck
Henrik Shahgholian
Marcel Filoche
Douglas N. Arnold

The venues where their research has been published multiple times are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Communications in Partial Differential Equations
Physical Review Letters
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal of Geometric Analysis

David Jerison has been recognized through several fellowships including:

Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2019)
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1985)

Best Publications

The Inhomogeneous Dirichlet Problem in Lipschitz Domains

D. Jerison;C.E. Kenig

986
Citations
Boundary behavior of harmonic functions in non-tangentially accessible domains

David S Jerison;Carlos E Kenig

830
Citations
The Poincaré inequality for vector fields satisfying Hörmander’s condition

David Jerison

591
Citations
Unique continuation and absence of positive eigenvalues for Schrodinger operators

David Jerison;Carlos E. Kenig;E. M. Stein

529
Citations
The Neumann problem on Lipschitz domains

David S. Jerison;Carlos E. Kenig

458
Citations
Extremals for the Sobolev inequality on the Heisenberg group and the CR Yamabe problem

David Jerison;John M. Lee

390
Citations
The Yamabe problem on CR manifolds

Unknown

359
Citations
The Wiener test for degenerate elliptic equations

E. B. Fabes;D. S. Jerison;C. E. Kenig

298
Citations
Intrinsic CR normal coordinates and the CR Yamabe problem

David Jerison;John M. Lee

236
Citations
Subelliptic, second order differential operators

David Jerison;Antonio Sánchez-Calle

211
Citations
The Dirichlet problem in non-smooth domains

David S. Jerison;Carlos E. Kenig

185
Citations
A minkowski problem for electrostatic capacity

David Jerison

172
Citations
Some new monotonicity theorems with applications to free boundary problems

Luis A. Caffarelli;David Jerison;Carlos E. Kenig

158
Citations
Carleman inequalities for the Dirac and Laplace operators and unique continuation

David Jerison

157
Citations
Necessary and sufficient conditions for absolute continuity of elliptic-harmonic measure

Eugene Barry Fabes;David S. Jerison;Carlos E. Kenig

149
Citations
A singular energy minimizing free boundary

Daniela De Silva;David Jerison

147
Citations
The Dirichlet problem for the Kohn Laplacian on the Heisenberg group, II

Unknown

144
Citations
Global energy minimizers for free boundary problems and full regularity in three dimensions

Unknown

139
Citations
The “hot spots” conjecture for domains with two axes of symmetry

David Jerison;Nikolai Nadirashvili

132
Citations
Hardy spaces, $A_\infty$, and singular integrals on chord-arc domains

David S. Jerison;Carlos E. Kenig

130
Citations
On the absence of positive eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators with rough potentials

Alexandru D. Ionescu;David Jerison

130
Citations
Effective Confining Potential of Quantum States in Disordered Media

Douglas N. Arnold;Guy David;David Jerison;Svitlana Mayboroda

125
Citations
Some remarks on stability of cones for the one-phase free boundary problem

David Jerison;Ovidiu Savin

116
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos E. Kenig University of Chicago

Guy David University of Paris-Saclay

Alessio Figalli ETH Zurich

Douglas N. Arnold University of Minnesota

Scott Sheffield MIT

Eugene B. Fabes University of Minnesota

Victor Guillemin MIT

Luis A. Caffarelli The University of Texas at Austin

Isadore Manuel Singer MIT

Daniel W. Stroock MIT

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