Nils-Peter Skoruppa

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Nils-Peter Skoruppa (born April 7, 1953 in Falkensee ) is a German mathematician .

Life

Skoruppa received his doctorate in 1985 with Don Zagier at the University of Bonn (on the relationship between Jacobiform and half-weight modular shapes ). In 1985 he was a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and from 1986 associate professor at the University of Bonn and researched at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. From 1993 he was professor at the University of Bordeaux and from 2000 at the University of Siegen , where he heads the group for algebra and number theory .

Skoruppa deals with modular forms, for example elliptical modular forms, Jacobi forms (in 1989 he and Zagier proved an analogue of the Eichler-Selberg trace formula for Jacobi forms), Siegel modular forms , also with applications in physics, e.g. B. in conformal field theory and vertex operator algebras . He found a connection between the classification of rational vertex operator algebras and invariant vector spaces (modular sets) of certain modular functions (modular units). Associated with this are identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan type. He also deals with the computer algebraic calculation of module shapes and builds an online database of modes for module shapes.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Eholzer, Nils-Peter Skoruppa: SL (2, Z) invariant spaces spanned by modular units . Cornell University , 1997, arxiv : q-alg / 9704004
  2. ↑ S. Boecherer Proc. Conference in Memory of Tsuneo Arakawa, World Scientific 2006
  3. ↑ modes. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 13, 2007 ; accessed on September 2, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Skoruppa, Nils-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkensee