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Jean‐François Lafont

Mathematics · The Ohio State University

Mid career · publishing since 2003Rising activity

Publications

88

Citations

526

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

23

Publishing since 2003

Research summary
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Jean-François Lafont works in geometric group theory and geometric topology, studying negatively curved (hyperbolic) spaces, manifolds, and the symmetry groups that act on them. His work explores questions of rigidity (when geometric structure is determined by algebraic or topological data), the classification of hyperbolic groups and their boundaries, and dynamical properties of geodesic flows on curved spaces. This research is highly theoretical and connects topology, geometry, and dynamical systems.

Geometric group theoryHyperbolic and negatively curved spacesRigidity theoremsGeodesic flows and dynamics on metric spacesManifold topology and Coxeter/reflection groups

Publication output peaked around 2017-2019, then slowed to roughly one to two papers per year in recent years, with a slight uptick in 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.6/year recently
2017: 5 publications172018: 12 publications12182019: 4 publications192020: 2 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 1 publication222023: 1 publication232024: 2 publications242025: 4 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×8
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks×7
  • Groups Geometry and Dynamics×2
  • Journal of Topology and Analysis×2
  • Journal of the European Mathematical Society×2
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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