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D-Index
40
Citations
17842
World Ranking
1975
National Ranking
833

Thomas M. Liggett 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 Thomas M. Liggett sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 121 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas M. Liggett 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 Thomas M. Liggett sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% 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

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1996 - Wald Memorial Lecturer
  • 1973 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Thomas M. Liggett is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States.

Their research spans the fields of Mathematics and Computer Science, with particular focus in the subfields of Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Mathematical Physics.

Main topics covered in their work include:

  • Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
  • Advanced Graph Theory Research
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics

Recent publications by Thomas M. Liggett include:

  • "One-dependent colorings of the star graph", published in 2023 in The Annals of Applied Probability

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Wenpin Tang

Common publication venues for their work include:

  • The Annals of Applied Probability

Throughout their career, Thomas M. Liggett has been recognized with multiple awards:

  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2008)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1997)
  • Wald Memorial Lecturer (1996)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1973)

Best Publications

  • Interacting Particle Systems

    Thomas M. Liggett

  • Stochastic Interacting Systems: Contact, Voter and Exclusion Processes

    Thomas M. Liggett

  • Ergodic Theorems for Weakly Interacting Infinite Systems and the Voter Model

    Richard A. Holley;Thomas M. Liggett

  • GENERATION OF SEMI-GROUPS OF NONLINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS ON GENERAL BANACH SPACES,

    M. G. Crandall;T. M. Liggett

  • Domination by product measures

    T. M. Liggett;R. H. Schonmann;A. M. Stacey

  • Fixed points of the smoothing transformation

    Richard Durrett;Thomas M. Liggett

  • An Improved Subadditive Ergodic Theorem

    Thomas M. Liggett

  • Negative dependence and the geometry of polynomials

    Julius Borcea;Petter Bränden;Thomas M. Liggett

  • Continuous Time Markov Processes: An Introduction

    Thomas M. Liggett

  • Coupling the Simple Exclusion Process

    Thomas M. Liggett

  • Stochastic Games with Perfect Information and Time Average Payoff

    Thomas M. Liggett;Steven A. Lippman

  • The Shape of the Limit Set in Richardson's Growth Model

    Richard Durrett;Thomas M. Liggett

  • Ergodic theorems for the asymmetric simple exclusion process

    Thomas M. Liggett

  • Proof of Aldous' spectral gap conjecture

    Pietro Caputo;Thomas M. Liggett;Thomas Richthammer

  • Generalized potlatch and smoothing processes

    Richard Holley;Thomas M. Liggett

  • Stochastic models of interacting systems

    Thomas M. Liggett

  • Existence theorems for infinite particle systems

    Thomas M. Liggett

  • Ergodic theorems for coupled random walks and other systems with locally interacting components

    Thomas M. Liggett;Frank Spitzer

  • Shocks in the asymmetric exclusion process

    E. D. Andjel;M. D. Bramson;T. M. Liggett

  • Multiple transition points for the contact process on the binary tree

    Thomas M. Liggett

  • The survival of contact processes

    R. Holley;T. M. Liggett

Frequent Co-Authors

Maury Bramson
Maury Bramson University of Minnesota
Rick Durrett
Rick Durrett Duke University
Geoffrey Grimmett
Geoffrey Grimmett University of Cambridge
Richard Arratia
Richard Arratia University of Southern California
Pablo A. Ferrari
Pablo A. Ferrari University of Buenos Aires
David Griffeath
David Griffeath University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robin Pemantle
Robin Pemantle University of Pennsylvania
Steven A. Lippman
Steven A. Lippman University of California, Los Angeles
Roberto H. Schonmann
Roberto H. Schonmann University of California, Los Angeles
Joel E. Cohen
Joel E. Cohen Rockefeller University

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