Oberseminare und sonstige Vorträge

Jacques Tits generalised the notion of a "polarity" in order to describe all embeddable polar spaces. We further extend it to the notion of "generalised duality". We use it to classify and describe all geometric hyperplanes of a Segre geometry, which is the direct product of two arbitrary projective spaces. This result, in turn, can be applied to Segre varieties over arbitrary fields and we obtain an explicit list of all geometric hyperplanes that are not induced by a projective hyperplane. Among them are so-called black hyperplanes, which are embedded long root geometries of type A, and we will mention some special features about those.

We study the (discrete) Phi^4 model on Z^d with algebraically decaying long-range interactions. This model is the natural discrete analogue of the fractional continuous Phi^4 model. We first describe some general properties of the phase transition that the model undergoes. Then, we study the nature of the critical scaling limits of the model, proving in particular the (marginal) triviality of these limits in dimension 3 with well-chosen interactions.

Pro-etale cohomology of rigid-analytic spaces with Q_p-coefficients has some surprising features: it is not A^1-invariant and no general finiteness theorems over Q_p are true. It has been observed in recent years that these particularities can be explained by viewing the pro-etale cohomology as (quasi-)coherent cohomology on the Fargues-Fontaine curve. I want to explain joint work in progress with Arthur-Cesar Le Bras and Lucas Mann, which aims to fully implement this idea by developing a six functor formalism with values in solid quasi-coherent sheaves on relative Fargues-Fontaine curves.

The study of wave propagation on black hole spacetimes has been an intense field of research in the past decades. This interest has been driven by the stability problem for black holes and by questions related to scattering theory. On Kerr black holes, the analysis of Maxwell's equations and the equations of linearized gravity, can be simplified by introducing the Teukolsky equation, which offers the advantage of being scalar in nature. After explaining this reduction, I will present a result providing the large time leading-order term for initially localized and regular solutions of the Teukolsky equation, valid for the full subextremal range of black hole parameters and for all spins. I will explain how such a development follows naturally from the precise analysis of the resolvent operator on the real axis. Recent advances in microlocal analysis are used to establish the existence and mapping properties of the resolvent.