Publications of SPP2026
On this site you find preprints and publications produced within the projects and with the support of the DFG priority programme „Geometry at Infinity“.
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- 01Hitchin components for orbifolds
- 02Asymptotic geometry of sofic groups and manifolds
- 03Geometric operators on a class of manifolds with bounded geometry
- 04Secondary invariants for foliations
- 05Index theory on Lorentzian manifolds
- 06Spectral Analysis of Sub-Riemannian Structures
- 07Asymptotic geometry of moduli spaces of curves
- 08Parabolics and invariants
- 09Diffeomorphisms and the topology of positive scalar curvature
- 10Duality and the coarse assembly map
- 11Topological and equivariant rigidity in the presence of lower curvature bounds
- 12Anosov representations and Margulis spacetimes
- 13Analysis on spaces with fibred cusps
- 14Boundaries of acylindrically hyperbolic groups and applications
- 15Spaces and Moduli Spaces of Riemannian Metrics with Curvature Bounds on compact and non-compact Manifolds
- 16Minimizer of the Willmore energy with prescribed rectangular conformal class
- 17Existence, regularity and uniqueness results of geometric variational problems
- 18Analytic L2-invariants of non-positively curved spaces
- 19Boundaries, Greens formulae and harmonic functions for graphs and Dirichlet spaces
- 20Compactifications and Local-to-Global Structure for Bruhat-Tits Buildings
- 21Stability and instability of Einstein manifolds with prescribed asymptotic geometry
- 22Willmore functional and Lagrangian surfaces
- 23Spectral geometry, index theory and geometric flows on singular spaces
- 24Minimal surfaces in metric spaces
- 25The Willmore energy of degenerating surfaces and singularities of geometric flows
- 26Projective surfaces, Segre structures and the Hitchin component for PSL(n,R)
- 27Invariants and boundaries of spaces
- 28Rigidity, deformations and limits of maximal representations
- 29Curvature flows without singularities
- 30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds
- 31Solutions to Ricci flow whose scalar curvature is bounded in Lp.
- 32Asymptotic geometry of the Higgs bundle moduli space
- 33Gerbes in renormalization and quantization of infinite-dimensional moduli spaces
- 34Asymptotic geometry of sofic groups and manifolds II
- 35Geometric operators on singular domains
- 36Cohomogeneity, curvature, cohomology
- 37Boundary value problems and index theory on Riemannian and Lorentzian manifolds
- 38Geometry of surface homeomorphism groups
- 39Geometric invariants of discrete and locally compact groups
- 40Construction of Riemannian manifolds with scalar curvature constraints and applications to general relativity
- 41Geometrically defined asymptotic coordinates in general relativity
- 42Spin obstructions to metrics of positive scalar curvature on nonspin manifolds
- 43Singular Riemannian foliations and collapse
- 44Actions of mapping class groups and their subgroups
- 45Macroscopic invariants of manifolds
- 46Ricci flows for non-smooth spaces, monotonic quantities, and rigidity
- 47Self-adjointness of Laplace and Dirac operators on Lorentzian manifolds foliated by noncompact hypersurfaces
- 48Profinite and RFRS groups
- 49Analysis on spaces with fibred cusps II
- 50Probabilistic and spectral properties of weighted Riemannian manifolds with Kato bounded Bakry-Emery-Ricci curvature
- 51The geometry of locally symmetric manifolds via natural maps
- 52Spaces and Moduli Spaces of Riemannian Metrics with Curvature Bounds on compact and non-compact Manifolds II
- 53Gauge-theoretic methods in the geometry of G2-manifolds
- 54Cohomology of symmetric spaces as seen from infinity
- 55New hyperkähler spaces from the the self-duality equations
- 56Large genus limit of energy minimizing compact minimal surfaces in the 3-sphere
- 57Existence, regularity and uniqueness results of geometric variational problems II
- 58Profinite perspectives on l2-cohomology
- 59Laplacians, metrics and boundaries of simplicial complexes and Dirichlet spaces
- 60Property (T)
- 61At infinity of symmetric spaces
- 62A unified approach to Euclidean buildings and symmetric spaces of noncompact type
- 63Uniqueness in mean curvature flow
- 64Spectral geometry, index theory and geometric flows on singular spaces II
- 65Resonances for non-compact locally symmetric spaces
- 66Minimal surfaces in metric spaces II
- 67Asymptotics of singularities and deformations
- 68Minimal Lagrangian connections and related structures
- 69Wall-crossing and hyperkähler geometry of moduli spaces
- 70Spectral theory with non-unitary twists
- 71Rigidity, deformations and limits of maximal representations II
- 72Limits of invariants of translation surfaces
- 73Geometric Chern characters in p-adic equivariant K-theory
- 74Rigidity, stability and deformations in nearly parallel G2-geometry
- 75Solutions to Ricci flow whose scalar curvature is bounded in L^p II
- 76Singularities of the Lagrangian mean curvature flow
- 77Asymptotic geometry of the Higgs bundle moduli space II
- 78Duality and the coarse assembly map II
- 79Alexandrov geometry in the light of symmetry and topology
- 80Nonlocal boundary problems: Index theory and semiclassical asymptotics
This is an introduction to the analysis of nonlinear evolution equations on manifolds with conical singularities via maximal regularity techniques. We address the specific difficulties due to the singularities, in particular the choice of extensions of the conic Laplacian that guarantee the existence of a bounded \(H_\infty\)-calculus. We introduce the relevant technical tools and survey, as main examples, applications to the porous medium equation, the fractional porous medium equation, the Yamabe flow, and the Cahn-Hilliard equation.
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30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds
We show that, on a manifold with conical singularities, the asymptotics of the solutions to the porous medium equation near the conical points are determined by the spectrum of the Laplacian on the cross-section of the cone. The key to this result is a precise description of the maximal domain of the cone Laplacian.
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30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds
In this paper, we study curve shortening flow on Riemann surfaces with singular metrics. It turns out that this flow is governed by a degenerate quasilinear parabolic equation. Under natural geometric assumptions, we prove short-time existence, uniqueness, and regularity of the flow. We also show that the evolving curves stay fixed at the singular points of the surface and prove some collapsing and convergence results.
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23Spectral geometry, index theory and geometric flows on singular spaces30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds
We show \(R\)-sectoriality for the fractional powers of possibly non-invertible \(R\)-sectorial operators. Applications concern existence, uniqueness and maximal \(L^{q}\)-regularity results for solutions of the fractional porous medium equation on manifolds with conical singularities. Space asymptotic behavior of the solutions close to the singularities is provided and its relation to the local geometry is established. Our method extends the freezing-of-coefficients method to the case of non-local operators that are expressed as linear combinations of terms in the form of a product of a function and a fractional power of a local operator.
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30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds
Realizations of differential operators subject to differential boundary conditions on manifolds with conical singularities are shown to have a bounded \(H_{\infty}\)-calculus in appropriate \(L_{p}\)-Sobolev spaces provided suitable conditions of parameter-ellipticity are satisfied. Applications concern the Dirichlet and Neumann Laplacian and the porous medium equation.
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30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds
We consider the long-time behaviour of the mean curvature flow of spacelike hypersurfaces in the Lorentzian product manifold M×R, where M is asymptotically flat. If the initial hypersurface F0⊂M×R is uniformly spacelike and asymptotic to M×{s} for some s∈R at infinity, we show that the mean curvature flow starting at F0 exists for all times and converges uniformly to M×{s} as t→∞.
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21Stability and instability of Einstein manifolds with prescribed asymptotic geometry29Curvature flows without singularities30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds31Solutions to Ricci flow whose scalar curvature is bounded in Lp.
We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation on manifolds with conical singularities. For appropriate initial data we show that the solution exists in the maximal \(L^q\)-regularity space for all times and becomes instantaneously smooth in space and time, where the maximal \(L^q\)-regularity is obtained in the sense of Mellin-Sobolev spaces. Moreover, we provide precise information concerning the asymptotic behavior of the solution close to the conical tips in terms of the local geometry.
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30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds
It is observed that in Banach spaces, sectorial operators having bounded imaginary powers satisfy a Heinz-Kato inequality.
| Journal | J. Anal. 28, no. 3, 841-846 (2020) |
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30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds
We consider the unnormalized Yamabe flow on manifolds with conical singularities. Under certain geometric assumption on the initial cross-section we show well posedness of the short time solution in the \(L^q\)-setting. Moreover, we give a picture of the deformation of the conical tips under the flow by providing an asymptotic expansion of the evolving metric close to the boundary in terms of the initial local geometry. Due to the blow up of the scalar curvature close to the singularities we use maximal \(L^q\)-regularity theory for conically degenerate operators.
| Journal | J. Evol. Equ. 20, no. 2, 321-334 (2020) |
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30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds
We study the porous medium equation on manifolds with conical singularities. Given strictly positive initial values, we show that the solution exists in the maximal \(L^q\)-regularity space for all times and is instantaneously smooth in space and time, where the maximal \(L^q\)-regularity is obtained in the sense of Mellin-Sobolev spaces. Moreover, we obtain precise information concerning the asymptotic behavior of the solution close to the singularity. Finally, we show the existence of generalized solutions for non-negative initial data.
| Journal | Comm. Partial Differential Equations 43, no 10, 1456-1484 (2018) |
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30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds
We decompose locally in time maximal \(L^{q}\)-regular solutions of abstract quasilinear parabolic equations as a sum of a smooth term and an arbitrary small−with respect to the maximal \(L^{q}\)-regularity space norm−remainder. In view of this observation, we next consider the porous medium equation and the Swift-Hohenberg equation on manifolds with conical singularities. We write locally in time each solution as a sum of three terms, namely a term that near the singularity is expressed as a linear combination of complex powers and logarithmic integer powers of the singular variable, a term that decays to zero close to the singularity faster than each of the non-constant summands of the previous term and a remainder that can be chosen arbitrary small with respect e.g. to the \(C^{0}\)-norm. The powers in the first term are time independent and determined explicitly by the local geometry around the singularity, e.g. by the spectrum of the boundary Laplacian in the situation of straight conical tips. The case of the above two problems on closed manifolds is also considered and local space asymptotics for the solutions are provided.
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30Nonlinear evolution equations on singular manifolds