Georg Frenck

About me

I am a Postdoc in the differential geometry group at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Augsburg. Before, I was in the differential geometry group at the Institute for Algebra and Geometry of the KIT. I obtained my PhD in Münster under the supervision of Johannes Ebert.


Activities

IX. Bavarian Geometry and Topology Meeting

Together with Artiom Nepechiy, we organized the IX. Bavarian Geometry and Topology Meeting.


Research

My research interest lies in geometric topology and differential geometry. In particular I am interested in studying spaces of Riemannian metrics with curvature bounds like positive scalar curvature through topological methods.

Publications and Preprints

  1. Georg Frenck: “Spaces of Positive Scalar Curvature metrics on totally nonspin Manifolds with spin boundary”, 2022.
    arXiv: 2204.11512.
    Video abstract: Spaces of Positive Scalar Curvature metrics on totally nonspin Manifolds with spin boundary
  2. Georg Frenck: “Sphericity of kappa-classes and positive curvature via block bundles”, 2021.
    arXiv: 2109.10306.
    (This article is a major upgrade to its previous version to be found here: arXiv:2104.10595. Video abstract: Diffeomorphisms and positive curvature)
  3. Georg Frenck, Jan-Bernhard Kordaß: “Spaces of positive intermediate curvature metrics”
    Geometriae Dedicata, 2021.
    DOI: 10.1007/s10711-021-00635-w
    arXiv: 2011.11388
  4. Georg Frenck, Jens Reinhold: “Spaces of metrics of positive Ricci curvature and bundles with non-multiplicative A-hat-genus”
    International Mathematics Research Notices, 2020.
    DOI: 10.1093/imrn/rnaa361 (free access article link )
    arXiv: 2010.04588
  5. Georg Frenck, Fernando Galaz-Garcia, Philipp Reiser: “Cohomogeneity One Manifolds and Homogeneous Spaces of Positive Scalar Curvature”
    Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 2022.
    DOI: 10.1112/blms.12557
    arXiv: 2009.13142
  6. Georg Frenck: “H-Space structures on spaces of metrics of positive scalar curvature”
    Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2021.
    DOI: 10.1090/tran/8505
    arXiv: 2004.01033
  7. Georg Frenck: “The action of the mapping class group on metrics of positive scalar curvature”
    Mathematische Annalen, 2021.
    DOI: 10.1007/s00208-021-02235-1
    arXiv: 1912.08613
  8. Johannes Ebert, Georg Frenck: “The Gromov-Lawson-Chernysh surgery theorem”
    Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana, 2020.
    DOI: 10.1007/s40590-021-00310-w
    arXiv: 1807.06311

Theses

Talks

Slides

  • The action of the Diff(M) on metrics of positive scalar curvature, from my colloquium talk in Maynooth (2019).
  • H-Space structures on metrics of positive scalar curvature, from my OberZOOMinar talk in Göttingen (2020).