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Harry Kesten

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120

Publications

12.2K

Citations

51

H-Index

1957

Active since

Affiliations

Cornell University(Current)

Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada

Harry Kesten is an author at Cornell University specializing in probability theory, engineering, and discrete mathematics.

Top concepts

ProbabilityEngineeringDiscrete MathematicsEntropyPhysicsGraph TheoryStatisticsRandom WalksStochastic ProcessesCombinatorial Optimization

Publications per year

1957–2022

120

Publications

120

Products of Random Matrices

Hillel Fürstenberg, Harry Kesten · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1960 · 1.1K citations · Full text

Engineering, Random Matrices, Probability Theory +4

Random difference equations and Renewal theory for products of random matrices

Harry Kesten · Acta Mathematica · 1973 · 977 citations · Full text

Renewal Theory, Engineering, Random Matrices +8

Percolation Theory for Mathematicians.

J. M. Hammersley, Harry Kesten · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) · 1984 · 629 citations · Full text

Percolation Theory, Probability Theory, Probabilistic Graph Theory

The critical probability of bond percolation on the square lattice equals 1/2

Harry Kesten · Communications in Mathematical Physics · 1980 · 629 citations

Critical Probability, Quantum Lattice System, Engineering +6

Symmetric random walks on groups

Harry Kesten · Transactions of the American Mathematical Society · 1959 · 602 citations

Engineering, Random Walks, Random Graph +4

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