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George Lusztig

George Lusztig

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Mathematics
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mathematics

D-Index
74
Citations
29435
World Ranking
211
National Ranking
121

George Lusztig publications per year

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1964 2025

397 publications in total across all disciplines

George Lusztig publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George Lusztig sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 364 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

George Lusztig D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George Lusztig sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 174 scientists 31 D-Index: 151 scientists 32 D-Index: 174 scientists 33 D-Index: 117 scientists 34 D-Index: 136 scientists 35 D-Index: 127 scientists 36 D-Index: 145 scientists 37 D-Index: 153 scientists 38 D-Index: 150 scientists 39 D-Index: 150 scientists 40 D-Index: 138 scientists 41 D-Index: 136 scientists 42 D-Index: 93 scientists 43 D-Index: 108 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 112 scientists 46 D-Index: 103 scientists 47 D-Index: 75 scientists 48 D-Index: 59 scientists 49 D-Index: 67 scientists 50 D-Index: 60 scientists 51 D-Index: 57 scientists 52 D-Index: 59 scientists 53 D-Index: 62 scientists 54 D-Index: 60 scientists 55 D-Index: 50 scientists 56 D-Index: 42 scientists 57 D-Index: 54 scientists 58 D-Index: 50 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 41 scientists 61 D-Index: 35 scientists 62 D-Index: 40 scientists 63 D-Index: 21 scientists 64 D-Index: 31 scientists 65 D-Index: 27 scientists 66 D-Index: 29 scientists 67 D-Index: 19 scientists 68 D-Index: 25 scientists 69 D-Index: 17 scientists 70 D-Index: 18 scientists 71 D-Index: 12 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 13 scientists 74 D-Index: 18 scientists 75 D-Index: 9 scientists 76 D-Index: 11 scientists 77 D-Index: 10 scientists 78 D-Index: 9 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 10 scientists 82 D-Index: 5 scientists 83 D-Index: 5 scientists 84 D-Index: 13 scientists 85 D-Index: 6 scientists 86+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2008 - Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
  • 1999 - Brouwer Medal
  • 1992 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1985 - Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra
  • 1983 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1982 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

George Lusztig is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. The scientist's research focuses primarily on the field of Mathematics, with a particular emphasis on several subfields including Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory, and Spectroscopy.

The body of work covers various main topics such as:

  • Advanced Algebra and Geometry
  • Algebraic structures and combinatorial models
  • Advanced Topics in Algebra
  • Finite Group Theory Research
  • Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics
  • Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
  • Geometric and Algebraic Topology

Notable recent publications include:

  • Positive Structures in Lie Theory, 2020, published in Notices of the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians
  • The Grothendieck group of unipotent representations: A new basis, 2020, published in Representation Theory of the American Mathematical Society
  • Total Positivity in Springer Fibres, 2020, published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
  • Positive conjugacy classes in Weyl groups, 2020, published in Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics Academia Sinica NEW SERIES
  • Open problems on Iwahori-Hecke algebras, 2020, published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Representation Theory of the American Mathematical Society
  • Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics Academia Sinica NEW SERIES
  • The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
  • Indagationes Mathematicae

Collaborations are a significant part of this researcher's output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Zhiwei Yun
  • Eric Sommers
  • Pierre Deligne
  • Jr. Vogan David A.
  • Sergey Fomin

The scientist has been recognized with multiple awards and honors over the years. These include:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (1983)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1982)
  • Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra (1985)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1992)
  • Brouwer Medal (1999)
  • Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2008)
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)

Best Publications

  • Introduction to Quantum Groups

    George Lusztig

  • Representations of Coxeter Groups and Hecke Algebras.

    David Kazhdan;George Lusztig

  • Canonical bases arising from quantized enveloping algebras

    G. Lusztig

  • Representations of reductive groups over finite fields

    Pierre Deligne;G. Lusztig

  • Affine Hecke algebras and their graded version

    George Lusztig

  • Characters of reductive groups over a finite field

    George Lusztig

  • Quantum deformations of certain simple modules over enveloping algebras

    G Lusztig

  • Quivers, perverse sheaves, and quantized enveloping algebras

    G. Lusztig

  • Proof of the Deligne-Langlands conjecture for Hecke algebras

    David Kazhdan;George Lusztig

  • Quantum groups at roots of 1

    George Lusztig

  • Finite-dimensional Hopf algebras arising from quantized universal enveloping algebra

    George Lusztig

  • Intersection cohomology complexes on a reductive group.

    G. Lusztig

  • Hecke Algebras With Unequal Parameters

    George Lusztig

  • Character sheaves, V

    George Lusztig

  • Tensor structures arising from affine Lie algebras. III

    Unknown

  • Total Positivity in Reductive Groups

    G. Lusztig

  • Green polynomials and singularities of unipotent classes

    G Lusztig

  • Some examples of square integrable representations of semisimple p-adic groups

    George Lusztig

  • A geometric setting for the quantum deformation of $GL_n$

    Unknown

  • Cuspidal local systems and graded Hecke algebras, I

    George Lusztig

  • Induced Unipotent Classes

    G. Lusztig;N. Spaltenstein

  • Cells in Affine Weyl Groups

    George Lusztig

Frequent Co-Authors

David Kazhdan
David Kazhdan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Pierre Deligne
Pierre Deligne Institute for Advanced Study
Claudio Procesi
Claudio Procesi Sapienza University of Rome
John Milnor
John Milnor Stony Brook University
Roger Howe
Roger Howe Texas A&M University
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits Collège de France
Ivan Cherednik
Ivan Cherednik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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