Geometric and Functional Analysis (GAFA) is a mathematical

Mathematics

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 journal published by Birkhäuser, an independent division of Springer-Verlag. The journal is published approximately bi-monthly.

The journal publishes papers on broad range of topics in geometry and analysis including geometric analysis

Geometric analysis

Geometric analysis is a mathematical discipline at the interface of differential geometry and differential equations. It includes both the use of geometrical methods in the study of partial differential equations , and the application of the theory of partial differential equations to geometry...

, riemannian geometry

Riemannian geometry

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, symplectic geometry, geometric group theory

Geometric group theory

Geometric group theory is an area in mathematics devoted to the study of finitely generated groups via exploring the connections between algebraic properties of such groups and topological and geometric properties of spaces on which these groups act .Another important...

, non-commutative geometry, automorphic forms and analytic number theory

Analytic number theory

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, and others.

GAFA is both an acronym and a part of the official full name of the journal.

History

The journal Geometric and Functional Analysis (GAFA) was founded in 1991 by Mikhail Gromov and Vitali Milman

Vitali Milman

Vitali Davidovich Milman is a mathematician specializing in analysis. He is currently a professor at the Tel-Aviv University. In the past he was a President of the Israel Mathematical Union and a member of the “Aliyah” committee of Tel-Aviv University.-Work:Milman received in Ph.D...

. The idea for the journal was inspired by the long-running Israeli seminar series "Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis (GAFA)" of which Vitali Milman had been one of the main organizers in the previous years. The journal retained the same acronym as the series to stress the connection between the two.

Journal information

The journal is reviewed cover-to-cover in Mathematical Reviews

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 and Zentralblatt MATH

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 and is indexed cover-to-cover in the Web of Science

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. According to the 2007 issue of Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal Geometric and Functional Analysis had the impact factor

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 of 1.026.

The journal has four editors: Vitali Milman

Vitali Milman

Vitali Davidovich Milman is a mathematician specializing in analysis. He is currently a professor at the Tel-Aviv University. In the past he was a President of the Israel Mathematical Union and a member of the “Aliyah” committee of Tel-Aviv University.-Work:Milman received in Ph.D...

 (editor-in-chief), Mikhail Gromov, Simon Donaldson

Simon Donaldson

Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS , is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth four-dimensional manifolds. He is now Royal Society research professor in Pure Mathematics and President of the Institute for Mathematical Science at Imperial College London...

 and Peter Sarnak

Peter Sarnak

Peter Clive Sarnak is a South African-born mathematician. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics...

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External links

• Geometric and Functional Analysis (GAFA), official journal website, Springer-Verlag
• GAFA, papers to appear (at the website of the Tel-Aviv University)