''Geometric and Functional Analysis'' (''GAFA'') is a

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journal published by Birkhäuser, an independent division of

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. The journal is published approximately bi-monthly. The journal publishes papers on broad range of topics in geometry and analysis including geometric analysis,

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, symplectic geometry,

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, non-commutative geometry,

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and analytic number theory, and others. ''GAFA'' is both an

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and a part of the official full name of the journal.

History

''GAFA'' was founded in 1991 by Mikhail Gromov and

Vitali Milman Vitali Davidovich Milman ( he, ויטלי מילמן; russian: Виталий Давидович Мильман) (born 23 August 1939) is a mathematician specializing in analysis. He is a professor at the Tel Aviv University. In the past he was ...

. The idea for the journal was inspired by the long-running Israeli seminar series "Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis" 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

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and

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and is indexed cover-to-cover in the Web of Science. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2015

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of 1.476. The journal has four editors:

(editor-in-chief), Mikhail Gromov, Simon Donaldson and Peter Sarnak.GAFA Editorial Board.
Geometric and Functional Analysis. Accessed August 11, 2008.

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GAFA, papers to appear
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