Benjamin Himpel
Currently at Aarhus University
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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:
Research interests: invariants of knots and 3-manifolds, gauge theory, spectral flow, boundary value problems on manifolds, topological quantum field theory |
Lehre/Teaching
Refereed journal publications
- 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. - 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. - 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
- 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
- Lecture notes on Lie groups and Chern-Simons theory, AULA, Aarhus Universitet, 2009.
- 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. - A splitting formula for spectral flow on closed 3-manifolds.
Ph.D. thesis, 2004
Books edited
- 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.