Priv.-Doz. Dr. Sebastian Heller


Mathematisches Institut
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Mathematikon, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205 , D-69120 Heidelberg

Office: Home
Telephone:
E-mail: heller@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de




Three views of a constant mean curvature surface in the 3-sphere. Images by Nick Schmitt based on the joint paper 'Deformations of symmetric CMC surfaces in the 3-sphere'.



Office Hours

open door policy


Research

My research interests are harmonic maps, integrable systems and moduli spaces, as well as their applications in geometry and physics.

Teaching

Summer term 2020:
Differentialgeometrie 1

Hauptseminar Differentialgeometrie

Winter term 2019/20:
Mathematik 1 für Ingenieure

Winter term 2016/17:
Riemannsche Flächen

Summer term 2016:
Ausgewählte Kapitel der Differentialgeometrie

Winter term 2015/16:
Mathematik für Physiker 3

Summer term 2015:
Mathematik für Physiker 2

Winter term 2014/15:
Ausgewälte Kapitel der Differentialgeometrie

Summer term 2014:
Seminar Geometrie von Flächen

Winter term 2013/14:
Einführung in Mannigfaltigkeiten
Seminar Riemannsche Flächen

Summer term 2013:
on parental leave

Winter term 2012/13:
Liegruppen und Liealgebren
Projektive Geometrie

Publications

  1. Higher solutions of Hitchin's self-duality equations

    with Lynn Heller
    accepted for publication in Journal of Integrable Systems
    Preprint: arxiv: 1801.02402
  2. Energy of sections of the Deligne-Hitchin twistor space

    with Florian Beck and Markus Roeser
    published online in Math. Annalen
    Preprint:
    arxiv: 1903.02497
  3. Minimal n-noids in hyperbolic and anti-de Sitter 3-space

    with Alexander I. Bobenko and Nicholas Schmitt
    Proceedings of the Royal Society A, DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2019.0173
    Preprint: arxiv: 1902.07992
  4. Real holomorphic sections of the Deligne-Hitchin moduli space

    with I. Biswas and M. Roeser
    Comm. Math. Phys., Volume 366, Issue 3 (2019), pages 1099-1133
    Preprint: arXiv:1802.06587
  5. Branes through finite group actions

    with Laura P. Schaposnik
    J. Geom. Phys., Volume 129, July 2018, Pages 279-293
    Preprint: arxiv: 1611.00391
  6. Navigating the Space of Symmetric CMC Surfaces

    with Lynn Heller and Nicholas Schmitt
    Journal of Differential Geometry, Vol. 110, No. 3 (2018), pp. 413-455
    Preprint: arxiv: 1501.01929
  7. Automorphisms of a rank one Deligne-Hitchin moduli space

    with Indranil Biswas
    SIGMA 13 (2017), 072, 19 pages; online version
    Preprint: arxiv: 1704.04924
  8. The asymptotic behavior of the monodromy representations of the associated families of compact CMC surfaces

    Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 2016; doi: 10.1112/blms/bdw036
    Preprint: arXiv:1505.00747
  9. The spectral curve theory for (k,l)-symmetric CMC surfaces

    with Lynn Heller and Nicholas Schmitt
    J. Geom. Phys. 98 (2015), 201-213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2015.08.010
    Preprint version
  10. Abelianization of Fuchsian Systems on a 4-punctured sphere and applications

    with Lynn Heller
    Journal of Symplectic Geometry, Vol. 14, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1059-1088
    Preprint version
  11. Conformally flat circle bundles over surfaces

    Diff. Geom. Appl. 40 (2015), 103-110.
    Preprint version
  12. Deformations of symmetric CMC surfaces in the 3-sphere

    with Nick Schmitt
    Experimental Mathematics , Volume 24, Issue 1 (2015), pp 65-75.
    Preprint: arxiv: 1305.4107
  13. A spectral curve approach to Lawson symmetric CMC surfaces of genus 2

    Math. Annalen, Volume 360, Issue 3 (2014), pp 607-652.
    DOI: 10.1007/s00208-014-1044-4
    Preprint: arxiv: 1209.3200
  14. Lawson's genus two minimal surface and meromorphic connections

    Math. Z., Volume 274 (2013), pp 745-760.
    DOI: 10.1007/s00209-012-1094-9
    Preprint version
  15. Higher genus minimal surfaces in S^3 and stable bundles.

    J. Reine Angew. Math. (Crelle's Journal), Volume 685 (2013), pp 105-122.
    DOI: 10.1515/crelle-2012-0011
    Preprint version
    Review
  16. Higher genus CMC surfaces via integrable systems

    Abresch U, Pedit F, Umehara M.: Progress in Surface Theory. Oberwolfach Rep. Volume 10 (2013), pp 1253-1312.
    DOI: 10.4171/OWR/2013/21
  17. Conformal fibrations of S3 by circles.

    Harmonic maps and differential geometry, Contemp. Math., Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, Volume 542 (2011), pp 195-202.
    Preprint version
    Review
  18. Harmonic morphisms on conformally flat 3-spheres

    Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., Volume 43 (2011), no. 1, 137-150.
    Preprint version
  19. Global aspects of integrable surface geometry

    with A. Gerding, F. Pedit and N. Schmitt
    in Systèmes intégrables et théorie des champs quantiques, eds: P. Baird, F. Hélein, J. Kouneiher, F. Pedit, V. Roubtsov, collection Travaux en Cours en Physique-Mathématiques, no 75, Hermann (2009).

Preprints

  1. On certain Tannakian categories of integrable connections over Kaehler manifolds

    with Indranil Biswas, Joćo Pedro dos Santos and Sorin Dumitrescu

    Preprint: arXiv:2005.02564
  2. Branes and moduli spaces of Higgs bundles on smooth projective varieties

    with Indranil Biswas and Laura P. Schaposnik

    Preprint: arxiv:2003.06997
  3. Irreducible flat SL(2,R)-connections on the trivial holomorphic bundle

    with Indranil Biswas and Sorin Dumitrescu

    Preprint: arxiv:2003.06997
  4. Willmore spheres in the 3-sphere revisited


    Preprint: arxiv:2003.06922
  5. Area Estimates for High genus Lawson surfaces via DPW

    with Lynn Heller and Martin Traizet

    Preprint: arxiv:1907.07139
  6. Real projective structures on Riemann surfaces and new hyper-Kähler manifolds

    Preprint: arXiv:1906.10350
  7. Stability properties of 2-lobed Delaunay tori in the 3-sphere

    with Lynn Heller and Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye
    Preprint: arxiv:1903.11830
  8. Isothermic constrained Willmore tori in 3-space

    with Lynn Heller and Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye
    Preprint: arxiv: 1903.11823
  9. Exploring the space of compact symmetric CMC surfaces

    with Lynn Heller and Nicholas Schmitt
    Preprint: arxiv: 1503.07838

Theses

Integrable systems methods for higher genus CMC surfaces in the 3-sphere

Habilitationsschrift, Universität Tübingen, 2013

Conformal Submersions of the 3-sphere

PhD thesis, Humboldt Universität Berlin, 2008