Benjamin Himpel

Currently at Aarhus University

Publications

Lehre/Teaching

Curriculum Vitae

Research Projects

Global Analysis Group

Topology Group
Mathematisches Institut
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Endenicher Allee 60
D-53115 Bonn
Office: room 132, Endenicher Allee 60

Email:
Phone (office): 0228/733132

Research interests: invariants of knots and 3-manifolds, gauge theory, spectral flow, boundary value problems on manifolds, topological quantum field theory

Lehre/Teaching

WS2011/12
  • Matlab
WS2009/10
SS2009
WS2008/09
SS2008
WS2007/08
SS2007
WS2006/07
SS2006
WS2005/06

Refereed journal publications

  1. Splitting the spectral flow and the SU(3) Casson invariant for spliced sums
    (with Hans Boden)
    Algebr. Geom. Topol. 9 (2009), no. 2, 865-902.
  2. A splitting formula for the spectral flow of the odd signature operator on 3-manifolds coupled to a path of SU(2) connections.
    Geom. Topol. 9 (2005), 2261-2302.
  3. Calderón projector for the Hessian of the perturbed Chern-Simons function on a 3-manifold with boundary.
    (with Paul Kirk and Matthias Lesch)
    Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 89 (2004), no. 1, 241-272.

Submitted preprints

  1. The Witten-Reshetkhin-Turaev invariants for finite order mapping tori II
    (with Joergen Andersen)
    arXiv:1107.1813v1 [math.GT]

Lecture notes, reports, and other publications

  1. Lecture notes on Lie groups and Chern-Simons theory, AULA, Aarhus Universitet, 2009.
  2. A splitting formula for the su(N) spectral flow of the odd signature operator coupled to a path of SU(N) connections
    Oberwolfach Reports, Report No. 21/2006, 31-34.
  3. A splitting formula for spectral flow on closed 3-manifolds.
    Ph.D. thesis, 2004

Books edited

  1. Chern-Simons gauge theory: 20 years after
    (with Jørgen E. Andersen, Hans Boden and Atle Hahn (editors))
    AMS/IP Stud. Adv. Math., Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, to be published.