Research Areas
Present, future, and past activities: We carry out research in several areas of geometry, linking applied and pure science.
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The aim of this project is to discuss the mappings used in Descriptive Geometry and their generalisations from both a synthetic and analytic point of view.
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In affine differential geometry a main point of research is the investigation of special models of surfaces in three dimensional affine space.
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The aim of the project is to study projective and affine matrix spaces and related questions in the research field of linear preserver problems.
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We are interested in flexible and in infinitesimally flexible structures - in theory as well as in applications, like gearing or the design of mechanisms for real world problems.
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The aim of the project is to investigate various aspects of the generalised chain geometry arising from the projective line over a ring which contains a (possibly skew) field.
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We investigate polyhedra and frameworks which are flexible or infinitesimally flexible, and problems related to the bellows conjecture.
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We study differential geometric invariants of ruled surfaces, line congruences, and complexes of lines.
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This is a method to study 3D geometry through 2D images. It provides insight into structure and metrical properties of spatial objects, processes and principles. We are interested in new educational tools and methodologies.
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Presently, we exhibit finite geometries which describe the commutation relations between generalised Pauli operators and their Kronecker products.
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We exhibit the geometry and embeddings of the Grassmann space G(n,d) formed by the d-dimensional subspaces of an n-dimensional projective space over an arbitrary (skew) field F and related topics, like products of Grassmann spaces, Schubert spaces, or flag spaces.
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We investigate finite combinatorial structures, like designs and divisible designs.
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Our aim is to characterise transformation groups via the invariance of a single geometric notion.
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The topic of our research are connections between spreads of projective spaces with areas like the geometry of field extensions, topological geometry, translation planes or flocks of quadrics.
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For any researcher with a love of geometry, enticing problems remain.
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Past activities |
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The aim of this project is to discuss Veronese varieties over a commutative ground field with non zero characteristic.
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We investigate reguli, Segre manifolds, normal rational curves, and their generalisations in projective spaces over arbitrary skew fields.
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Geometric Tolerancing,
Nonlinear Subdivision, Geometric Spline Theory, Discrete Differential Geometry, Developable Surfaces
These topics can be found on the web site of Johannes Wallner, Graz University of Technology (external link).
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