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Prof. Dr. Matthias Lesch

E-mail: ml(at)matthiaslesch.de
Phone: +49 228 73 7641
Homepage: http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/lesch/
Room: 1.033
Location: Mathematics Center
Institute: Mathematical Institute
Research Areas: Research Area B3
Interdisciplinary Research Unit D2

Academic Career

1988

Dr. rer. nat., University of Marburg (advisor: Manfred Breuer)

1989 - 1995

Assistant Professor (C1, later C2), University of Augsburg

1994

Habilitation, University of Augsburg

1994 - 1995

Visiting Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA (on leave from Augsburg)

1995 - 1999

Senior Assistant Professor (C2), HU Berlin

1999

Heisenberg Fellow, University of Bonn

1999 - 2000

Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

2001 - 2005

Professor (C3), University of Cologne

2005 - 2007

Professor (C3), University of Bonn

Since 2007

Professor (W2), University of Bonn

Research Profile

A large part of my research focuses around geometric differential operators (Dirac and Laplace operators) and their spectral theory. In particular I am interested in spectral invariants which may be extracted from the heat kernel (torsion, eta invariants, zeta-determinants, rho invariants).
I am also interested in Noncommutative Geometry a la Connes and I am working on heat invariants in the noncommutative setting. The noncommuative setting exhibits interesting phenomena which are generally not present in the commutative context.

In collaboration with Boris Vertman I have established a work programme on ''spectral geometry, index theory and geometric flows'' in the context singular spaces. One of the main objectives is to establish a heat resp. resolvent expansion for certain Laplace type operators on certain stratified spaces. This would have interesting applications for the understanding of various of the above mentioned spetral invariants.
A second long term project is in operator algebras: I am working on functional analytic problems related to the construction of the celebrated Kasparov product in the unbounded picture of KK-theory.

Selected Publications

[1] Luiz Hartmann, Matthias Lesch, Boris Vertman
Zeta-determinants of Sturm-Liouville operators with quadratic potentials at infinity
J. Differential Equations , 262: (5): 3431--3465
2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2016.11.033
[2] Matthias Lesch, Henri Moscovici
Modular curvature and Morita equivalence
Geom. Funct. Anal. , 26: (3): 818--873
2016
DOI: 10.1007/s00039-016-0375-6
[3] Matthias Lesch
Divided differences in noncommutative geometry: rearrangement lemma, functional calculus and expansional formula
J. Noncommut. Geom. , 11: (1): 193--223
2017
DOI: 10.4171/JNCG/11-1-6
[4] Alexander Gorokhovsky, Matthias Lesch
On the spectral flow for Dirac operators with local boundary conditions
Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN (17): 8036--8051
2015
DOI: 10.1093/imrn/rnu188
[5] Matthias Lesch, Boris Vertman
Regularizing infinite sums of zeta-determinants
Math. Ann.
, 361: (3-4): 835--862
2015
DOI: 10.1007/s00208-014-1078-7
[6] Matthias Lesch
A gluing formula for the analytic torsion on singular spaces
Anal. PDE , 6: (1): 221--256
2013
DOI: 10.2140/apde.2013.6.221
[7] Jens Kaad, Matthias Lesch
Spectral flow and the unbounded Kasparov product
Adv. Math. , 248: : 495--530
2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2013.08.015
[8] Jens Kaad, Matthias Lesch
A local global principle for regular operators in Hilbert C*-modules
J. Funct. Anal. , 262: (10): 4540--4569
2012
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2012.03.002
[9] Matthias Lesch, Carolina Neira Jiménez
Classification of traces and hypertraces on spaces of classical pseudodifferential operators
J. Noncommut. Geom. , 7: (2): 457--498
2013
DOI: 10.4171/JNCG/123
[10] Matthias Lesch, Boris Vertman
Regular singular Sturm-Liouville operators and their zeta-determinants
J. Funct. Anal. , 261: (2): 408--450
2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2011.03.011
[11] Matthias Lesch, Henri Moscovici, Markus J. Pflaum
Connes-Chern character for manifolds with boundary and eta cochains
Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. , 220: (1036): viii+92
2012
ISBN: 978-0-8218-7296-3
DOI: 10.1090/S0065-9266-2012-00656-3
[12] Paul Kirk, Matthias Lesch
The η-invariant, Maslov index, and spectral flow for Dirac-type operators on manifolds with boundary
Forum Math. , 16: (4): 553--629
2004
DOI: 10.1515/form.2004.027
[13] Matthias Lesch
On the noncommutative residue for pseudodifferential operators with log-polyhomogeneous symbols
Ann. Global Anal. Geom. , 17: (2): 151--187
1999
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006504318696
[14] Jochen Brüning, Matthias Lesch
On the η-invariant of certain nonlocal boundary value problems
Duke Math. J. , 96: (2): 425--468
1999
DOI: 10.1215/S0012-7094-99-09613-8
[15] Matthias Lesch
Operators of Fuchs type, conical singularities, and asymptotic methods
of Teubner-Texte zur Mathematik [Teubner Texts in Mathematics] : 190
Publisher: B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart
1997
ISBN: 3-8154-2097-0
[16] Jochen Brüning, Matthias Lesch
On the spectral geometry of algebraic curves
J. Reine Angew. Math. , 474: : 25--66
1996

Publication List

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Awards

1995

Gerhard-Hess Award, German Research Foundation (DFG)

1999

Heisenberg fellowship, German Research Foundation (DFG)

2000

NSF Grant DMS 0072551

Offers

2007

Chair in Pure Math, Loughborough University, England, UK

Selected PhD students

Boris Vertman (2008): “The Analytic Torsion for Manifolds with Boundary and Conical Singularities”,
now Professor, University of Münster

Carolina Neira Jimenéz (2010): “Cohomology Of Classes Of Symbols And Classification Of Traces On Corresponding Classes Of Operators With Non Positive Order”,
now Assistant Professor, National University of Colombia

Batu Güneysu (2011): “On the Feyman-Kac formula for Schrödinger semigroups on vector bundles”,
now Postdoc, HU Berlin

Supervised Theses

  • Master theses: 5, currently 3
  • Diplom theses: 11
  • PhD theses: 8, currently 2
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