Welcome to SPP 2026
This is the platform of a coordinated research programme in mathematics, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It comprises 33 research projects in the fields of differential geometry, geometric topology, and global analysis. More than 80 researchers from doctoral to professorial level and based at more than 20 German and Swiss universities are represented in this programme.
Latest publications
Plateau's problem for singular curves
Paul Creutz
We give a solution of Plateau's problem for singular curves possibly having self-intersections. The proof is based on the solution of Plateau's…
Long-time estimates for heat flows on ALE manifolds
Klaus Kröncke, Oliver Lindblad Petersen
We consider the heat equation associated to Schrödinger operators acting on vector bundles on asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) manifolds. Novel …
Equivariant coarse (co-)homology theories
Christopher Wulff
We present an Eilenberg--Steenrod-like axiomatic framework for equivariant coarse homology and cohomology theories. We also discuss a general…
Moduli space of nonnegatively curved metrics on manifolds of dimension $4k+1$
Anand Dessai
In each dimension $4k+1\geq 9$, we exhibit infinite families of closed manifolds with fundamental group $\mathbb Z_2$ for which the moduli space of…