2026 Thomas M. Liggett: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	40	1975	1733	833	684	121	17842

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Mathematics

1975

1733

833

684

121

17842

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

7002
Citations
Stochastic Interacting Systems: Contact, Voter and Exclusion Processes

Thomas M. Liggett

2287
Citations
Ergodic Theorems for Weakly Interacting Infinite Systems and the Voter Model

Richard A. Holley;Thomas M. Liggett

1497
Citations
GENERATION OF SEMI-GROUPS OF NONLINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS ON GENERAL BANACH SPACES,

M. G. Crandall;T. M. Liggett

1194
Citations
Domination by product measures

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

708
Citations
Fixed points of the smoothing transformation

Richard Durrett;Thomas M. Liggett

304
Citations
An Improved Subadditive Ergodic Theorem

Thomas M. Liggett

293
Citations
Negative dependence and the geometry of polynomials

Julius Borcea;Petter Bränden;Thomas M. Liggett

277
Citations
Continuous Time Markov Processes: An Introduction

Thomas M. Liggett

248
Citations
Coupling the Simple Exclusion Process

Thomas M. Liggett

237
Citations
Stochastic Games with Perfect Information and Time Average Payoff

Thomas M. Liggett;Steven A. Lippman

223
Citations
The Shape of the Limit Set in Richardson's Growth Model

Richard Durrett;Thomas M. Liggett

167
Citations
Ergodic theorems for the asymmetric simple exclusion process

Thomas M. Liggett

163
Citations
Proof of Aldous' spectral gap conjecture

Pietro Caputo;Thomas M. Liggett;Thomas Richthammer

157
Citations
Generalized potlatch and smoothing processes

Richard Holley;Thomas M. Liggett

147
Citations
Stochastic models of interacting systems

Thomas M. Liggett

145
Citations
Existence theorems for infinite particle systems

Thomas M. Liggett

141
Citations
Ergodic theorems for coupled random walks and other systems with locally interacting components

Thomas M. Liggett;Frank Spitzer

135
Citations
Shocks in the asymmetric exclusion process

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

122
Citations
Multiple transition points for the contact process on the binary tree

Thomas M. Liggett

110
Citations
The survival of contact processes

R. Holley;T. M. Liggett

107
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Maury Bramson University of Minnesota

Rick Durrett Duke University

Geoffrey Grimmett University of Cambridge

Richard Arratia University of Southern California

Pablo A. Ferrari University of Buenos Aires

David Griffeath University of Wisconsin–Madison

Robin Pemantle University of Pennsylvania

Steven A. Lippman University of California, Los Angeles

Roberto H. Schonmann University of California, Los Angeles

Joel E. Cohen Rockefeller University

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