Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Hein, Mathematisches Institut

This project aims to connect recent developments in Kähler geometry and spin geometry related to lower scalar curvature bounds and the Positive Mass Theorem. We would like to sharpen the Cecchini-Zeidler bandwidth inequality in the case of Kähler metrics and to find new proofs and extensions of the Positive Mass Theorem. One setting of interest is the case of spin^c manifolds equipped with almost-Kähler metrics, particularly in real dimension 4.

We will investigate the existence, rigidity and classification of 4-dimensional Lorentzian and Riemannian Einstein metrics with two commuting Killing vectors. Our goal is to address open questions in the study of black hole uniqueness and gravitational instantons. In the Ricci-flat case, the problem reduces to the analysis of axisymmetric harmonic maps from R^3 to the hyperbolic plane. In the case of negative Ricci curvature, a detailed understanding of the conformal boundary value problem for asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein metrics is required.