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Eduard Looijenga

Eduard Looijenga

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Mathematics

D-Index
37
Citations
5672
World Ranking
2505
National Ranking
31

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 1995 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Eduard Looijenga is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and specializes in mathematics, focusing on various subfields within the discipline. Their primary areas of research include Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics, Algebra and Number Theory, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, and Applied Mathematics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics such as Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory, Geometric and Algebraic Topology, Advanced Algebra and Geometry, Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology, Geometry and complex manifolds, Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows, and Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics.

Eduard Looijenga has a significant publication record, including recent papers such as:

  • The Nielsen realization problem for K3 surfaces, 2024, Journal of Differential Geometry
  • A BALL QUOTIENT PARAMETRIZING TRIGONAL GENUS 4 CURVES, 2023, Nagoya Mathematical Journal
  • RETRACTED ARTICLE: Curves with prescribed symmetry and associated representations of mapping class groups, 2021, Mathematische Annalen
  • Teichmüller spaces and Torelli theorems for hyperkähler manifolds, 2020, Mathematische Zeitschrift
  • The Nielsen realization problem for K3 surfaces, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Differential Geometry
  • Mathematische Annalen
  • Journal of Topology and Analysis
  • Nagoya Mathematical Journal

Eduard Looijenga collaborates regularly with several colleagues, including Benson Farb, Marco Boggi, Yunpeng Zi, Jiaming Chen, and Gerard van der Geer.

The scientist has been recognized by their peers and has received honors including:

  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995

Best Publications

  • Isolated Singular Points on Complete Intersections

    E. J. N. Looijenga

  • Topological stability of smooth mappings

    Christopher G. Gibson;Klaus Wirthmüller;Andrew A. du Plessis;Eduard J. N. Looijenga

  • Motivic measures

    Eduard Looijenga

  • On the tautological ring of Mg

    Eduard Looijenga

  • Root systems and elliptic curves

    Eduard Looijenga

  • Rational surfaces with an anti-canonical cycle

    Eduard Looijenga

  • The Complement of the Bifurcation Variety of a Simple Singularity

    Eduard Looijenga;Eduard Looijenga

  • Torelli theorems for Kähler K3 surfaces

    Eduard Looijenga;Chris Peters

  • Invariant theory for generalized root systems

    Eduard Looijenga

  • A Lie algebra attached to a projective variety

    Eduard Looijenga;Valery A. Lunts

  • $L^2$ -cohomology of locally symmetric varieties

    Eduard Looijenga

  • Mapping class groups and moduli spaces of curves

    R. Hain;E.J.N. Looijenga

  • Quadratic functions and smoothing surface singularities

    Eduard Looijenga;Eduard Looijenga;Jonathan Wahl;Jonathan Wahl

  • Smooth deligne-mumford compactifications by means of prym level structures

    E.J.N. Looijenga

  • Prym representations of mappings class groups

    Eduard Looijenga

  • The period map for cubic fourfolds

    Eduard Looijenga

  • Compactifications defined by arrangements, II: Locally symmetric varieties of type IV

    Eduard Looijenga

  • On the tautological ring of $\M _g$

    Eduard Looijenga

  • The smoothing components of a triangle singularity. II

    E. Looijenga

  • A note on polynomial isolated singularities

    Eduard Looijenga

  • STABLE COHOMOLOGY OF THE MAPPING CLASS GROUP WITH SYMPLECTIC COEFFICIENTS AND OF THE UNIVERSAL ABEL-JACOBI MAP

    Eduard Looijenga

Frequent Co-Authors

Benson Farb
Benson Farb University of Chicago
János Kollár
János Kollár Princeton University
Igor V. Dolgachev
Igor V. Dolgachev University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Artur Avila
Artur Avila University of Zurich
Ezra Getzler
Ezra Getzler Northwestern University
John Coates
John Coates University of Cambridge
Gert-Martin Greuel
Gert-Martin Greuel Technical University of Kaiserslautern

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