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Gregory Margulis

Gregory Margulis

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Mathematics

D-Index
44
Citations
8528
World Ranking
1577
National Ranking
681

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Abel Prize For pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics.
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2005 - Wolf Prize in Mathematics for his monumental contributions to algebra, in particular to the theory of lattices in semi-simple Lie groups, and striking applications of this to ergodic theory, representation theory, number theory, combinatorics, and measure theory.
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1978 - Fields Medal of International Mathematical Union (IMU) Provided innovative analysis of the structure of Lie groups. His work belongs to combinatorics, differential geometry, ergodic theory, dynamical systems, and Lie groups.

Overview

Gregory Margulis is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Mathematics, with subfields including Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Algebra and Number Theory, and Applied Mathematics.

The main topics of their work cover a range of areas related to dynamics and topology. These include:

  • Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals
  • Analytic Number Theory Research
  • Mathematics and Applications
  • Geometric and Algebraic Topology
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
  • Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
  • Chaos control and synchronization

Margulis has coauthored publications with several researchers, including:

  • Tsachik Gelander
  • Arie Levit
  • Paul Buterus
  • Friedrich Götze
  • Thomas Hille

Frequent publication venues for Margulis include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Inventiones mathematicae
  • The Michigan Mathematical Journal

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Margulis are:

  • "Distribution of values of quadratic forms at integral points", 2022, Inventiones mathematicae
  • "Effective Discreteness Radius of Stabilizers for Stationary Actions", 2022, The Michigan Mathematical Journal
  • "Effective discreteness radius of stabilisers for stationary actions", 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "An effective closing lemma for unipotent flows", 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

Throughout their career, Margulis has received several awards and recognitions, including:

  • Abel Prize (2020) for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory, and combinatorics
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
  • Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2005) for contributions to algebra, with applications in ergodic theory, representation theory, number theory, combinatorics, and measure theory
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2001)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992)
  • Fields Medal of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) (1978) for analysis of Lie groups related to combinatorics, differential geometry, ergodic theory, dynamical systems, and Lie groups

Best Publications

  • Discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups

    Gregori Aleksandrovitch Margulis

  • Flows on homogeneous spaces and Diophantine approximation on manifolds

    Dmitry Ya. Kleinbock;Grigory A. Margulis

  • Explicit constructions of graphs without short cycles and low density codes

    G. A. Margulis

  • Applications of ergodic theory to the investigation of manifolds of negative curvature

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  • Logarithm laws for flows on homogeneous spaces

    D. Y. Kleinbock;G. A. Margulis

  • On Some Aspects of the Theory of Anosov Systems

    Grigoriy A. Margulis

  • Limit distributions of orbits of unipotent flows and values of quadratic forms

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  • UPPER BOUNDS AND ASYMPTOTICS IN A QUANTITATIVE VERSION OF THE OPPENHEIM CONJECTURE

    Alex Eskin;Gregory Margulis;Shahar Mozes

  • Khintchine-type theorems on manifolds: the convergence case for standard and multiplicative versions

    V. Bernik;D. Kleinbock;G. A. Margulis

  • Invariant measures for actions of unipotent groups over local fields on homogeneous spaces

    G. A. Margulis;G. M. Tomanov

  • A Multiplicative Ergodic Theorem and Nonpositively Curved Spaces

    Anders Karlsson;Gregory A. Margulis

  • Semigroups containing proximal linear maps

    H. Abels;G. A. Margulis;G. A. Soifer

  • Complete affine locally flat manifolds with a free fundamental group

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  • Some remarks on the definition of tangent cones in a Carnot-Carathéodory space

    G. A. Margulis;G. D. Mostow

  • Discrete Subgroups and Ergodic Theory

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  • Metric Diophantine approximation: The Khintchine--Groshev theorem for non-degenerate manifolds

    V. Beresnevich;V. Bernik;D. Kleinbock;G. A. Margulis

  • Effective equidistribution for closed orbits of semisimple groups on homogeneous spaces

    Manfred Einsiedler;Gregory Margulis;Akshay Venkatesh

  • Some remarks on invariant means

    G. A. Margulis

  • Free subgroups of the homeomorphism group of the circle

    Gregory Margulis

  • Arithmeticity of the irreducible lattices in the semi-simple groups of rank greater than 1

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  • Quadratic forms of signature (2, 2) and eigenvalue spacings on rectangular 2-tori

    Alex Eskin;Gregory Margulis;Shahar Mozes

  • Dynamical and ergodic properties of subgroup actions on homogeneous spaces with applications to number theory

    G. A. Margulis

  • Finitely-additive invariant measures on Euclidean spaces

    G. A. Margulis

  • THE DIFFERENTIAL OF A QUASI-CONFORMAL MAPPING OF A CARNOT-CARATHEODORY SPACE

    G. A. Margulis;G. D. Mostow

  • Some linear groups virtually having a free quotient.

    G.A. Margulis;È.B. Vinberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Dmitry Kleinbock
Dmitry Kleinbock Brandeis University
Elon Lindenstrauss
Elon Lindenstrauss Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alex Eskin
Alex Eskin University of Chicago
William M. Goldman
William M. Goldman University of Maryland, College Park
Friedrich Götze
Friedrich Götze Bielefeld University

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