PD Dr. habil. Olaf Müller
Lehrkraft für besondere AufgabenInstitut für Mathematik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
E-mail: mullerol (then the usual symbol in between) math.hu-berlin.de
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Tel.: +49 (0) 30 2093 45435
Office: RUD25-1.308
Office hour: (winter term 2024-2025): Fridays 11am to 12am, or by appointment
For information about current teaching
Please consult my German homepage
Teaser for my seminar about systolic inequalities and filling problems a la Gromov (Summer term 2022)
Research interests
- Cauchy problems of quasi-linear hyperbolic equations
- Geometry of of infinite-dimensional Frechet manifolds of sections and inverse-function theorems
- Geometry at infinity (asymptotic geometry of noncompact manifolds, ideal boundaries)
- Conformal geometry, Yamabe Theory
- Geometry of globally hyperbolic manifolds,e.g. Special time functions
- Spin geometry and Dirac operators
- Geodesic dynamics and dynamics of minimal submanifolds
- Entropy, synthetic curvature and Optimal Transport
Published articles
- Lorentzian Gromov-Hausdorff theory and finiteness results
Gen Relativ Gravit 54, 117 (2022)
arXiv:1912.00988 - Solutions to the Dirac Equation in Kerr-Newman Geometries including the black-hole region, with Christoph Krpoun.
Accepted for publication by Journal of Geometry and Physics (2022)
arXiv:2204.05741 - Construction of initial data sets for Lorentzian manifolds with lightlike parallel spinors, mit Bernd Ammann und Klaus Kroencke .
Communications in Mathematical Physics 387, 77-109 (2021)
arXiv:1903.02064 - On the von Neumann rule in quantization
Journal of Mathematical Physics 60, 082104 (2019)
arxiv:1903.10494 - Black holes in Einstein-Maxwell Theory,
Class.Quant.Grav. 36, no 1 (2018)
arxiv: 1607.05036
- Global solvability of massless Dirac–Maxwell systems, with Nicolas Ginoux
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré C, Analyse non linéaire 35, no 6, 1645-1654 (2018)
arXiv:1407.1177 [math-ph] - Applying the index theorem for non-smooth operators
Journal of Geometry and Physics 116, 140-145 (2017)
arXiv:1506.04636 [math-ph]
- A universal spinor bundle and the Einstein–Dirac–Maxwell equation as a variational theory, with Nikolai Nowaczyk
Letters in Mathematical Physics 107, 933–961 (2017)
arXiv:1504.01034 [math-ph] - Riemannian geometry of the space of volume preserving immersions, with Martin Bauer
and Peter Michor
Differential Geometry and its Applications 49, 23-42 (2016)
arXiv:1603.0591616 - Which spacetimes admit conformal compactifications?
Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 20, no. 5, 1109-1124 (2016)
arXiv:1409.8136 [math-ph] - Lorentzian Spectral Geometry for Globally Hyperbolic Surfaces, with Felix Finster.
Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 20,no 4, 751-820 (2016).
arXiv:1411.3578 - Compact Lorentzian holonomy, with Manuel Gutiérrez.
Differential Geometry and its applications 48,11-22
arXiv:1502.05289 -
A note on invariant temporal functions
Letters in Mathematical Physics 106, 959-971 (2016)
arXiv:1502.02716 - Every conformal class contains a metric of bounded geometry,
mit Marc Nardmann
Mathematische Annalen 363, no 1, pp 143 - 174 (2015)
arXiv:1303.5957 [math.DG] -
Horizons
Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 19, no 4, pp. 747-760 (2015)
arXiv:1111.4571 [math.DG] -
An invitation to Lorentzian geometry
with Miguel Sánchez,
Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 115 , pp. 153-183 (2014)
arXiv:math/0604265 -
Special temporal functions on globally hyperbolic manifolds
Letters in Mathematical Physics 103 , no 3, pp 285-297 (2013)
arXiv:0904.1599 [math.DG] -
Asymptotic flexibility of globally hyperbolic manifolds
Comptes Rendus de l´Académie des Sciences (Mathématique) 350, no 78, pp. 421 - 423 (2012)
arXiv:1110.1037 [math.DG] -
Lorentzian manifolds isometrically embeddable in Ln
Transactions of the AMS 363, no 10, pp. 5367-5379 (2011) with Miguel Sánchez,
arXiv:0812.4439 [math.DG] -
Metrizability of spaces of homomorphisms between metric vector spaces
Journal of Geometry and Physics 60 , no 3, pp. 460-470 (2010)
arXiv:0905.3777 [math.FA] -
A note on closed isometric embeddings
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 349 , pp. 297-298 (2009)
arXiv:0805.4657 [math.DG] DOI:10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.07.002 -
A metric approach to Fréchet geometry
Journal of Geometry and Physics 58 , pp. 1477-1500 (2008)
arXiv:math/0612379 [math.DG] -
Codazzi spinors and globally hyperbolic manifolds with special holonomy
with Helga Baum,
Mathematische Zeitschrift 258, no 1 pp. 185-211 (2008)
arXiv:0704.3725 [math.DG] -
The Cauchy Problem of Lorentzian Minimal Surfaces in Globally Hyperbolic Manifolds,
Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 32, no.1, pp. 67-85 (2007)
arXiv:math/0210352 [math.DG] -
Measures in the geometric quantization of field theories
Journal of Geometry and Physics 56, no. 6, pp. 1029-1041 (2006)
Submitted articles
- Gromov-Hausdorff distances for Lorentzian length spaces
arXiv:2209.12736 - Functors in Lorentzian geometry: Three variations on a theme
arXiv:2205.01617 - Connected holonomy is lower semi-continuous
arXiv:2109.05572 - Topologies on the future causal completion
arXiv:1909.03797 - Cheeger-Gromov compactness for manifolds with boundary
arxiv:1808.06458