Rudolf Zeidler

Postdoctoral researcher

University of Münster

About me

I am a postdoc in the Topology Group of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Münster. Previously, I graduated from the University of Göttingen, where my doctoral advisor was Thomas Schick.

Interests

Index theory
Positive scalar curvature
Coarse geometry

Education

Doctorate in Mathematics, 2016

University of Göttingen
MSc in Mathematics, 2013

University of Vienna
BSc in Mathematics, 2011

University of Vienna

Publications

Z. Xie, G. Yu, R. Zeidler. On the range of the relative higher index and the higher rho-invariant for positive scalar curvature. Preprint, 2017.

N. Bárcenas, R. Zeidler. Positive scalar curvature and low-degree group homology. To appear in Annals of K-Theory. Preprint, 2017.

R. Zeidler. An index obstruction to positive scalar curvature on fiber bundles over aspherical manifolds. Algebraic & Geometric Topology, 2017.

Journal article arXiv PDF

R. Zeidler. Positive scalar curvature and product formulas for secondary index invariants. Journal of Topology, 2016.

Journal article arXiv PDF

R. Zeidler. Coarse median structures and homomorphisms from Kazhdan groups. Geometriae Dedicata, 2016.

Journal article arXiv PDF

Theses

R. Zeidler. Secondary large-scale index theory and positive scalar curvature. Doctoral dissertation, 2016.

PDF (via ediss.uni-goettingen.de)

R. Zeidler. Coarse median structures on groups. Master’s thesis, 2013.

PDF (via othes.univie.ac.at)

Teaching

Information for students can be found in the teaching section on the website of the Topology group or on the e-Learning platform Learnweb.

In the winter term 2017-18 I gave an advanced course on “Coarse index theory”.

Contact

math@rzeidler.eu
@rzei on Keybase.
Office 517, Mathematisches Institut, Einsteinstr. 62, 48149 Münster, Germany
Office hours: email for appointment