The main topic of my research is the unified and constructive treatment
of systems of algebraic and differential equations (in particular under-
and overdetermined systems) based on the central notion
of involution (see my monograph with the same title)
combining algebraic, combinatorial, homological and geometric ideas. I
am interested in both obtaining a deeper theoretical understanding of
this concept and applying it to various fields. On the theoretical side,
I am studying questions in the formal theory of differential equations
like existence and uniqueness of solutions, completion to involution or
geometric singularities and constructive problems in commutative algebra
(in particular, the use of Pommaret bases for the study of polynomial
modules). The applications concern mainly mathematical physics
(geometric mechanics, systems with constraints, gauge theories) and the
analysis of differential algebraic equations with a current emphasis on
systems arising in biochemical reaction networks (in particular,
stability, oscillation and bifurcation questions). More details can be
found in my publications.
The following short survey over some recent works may give an
impression of the main emphasis of our current research:
- We study singularities of general systems of differential
equations combining techniques from differential algebra, algebraic
geometry and differential topology. In the recent article
[94]
, a
general framework for the algorithmic detection of all singularities of a
given equation over the complex numbers (a real version can be found in
[45]
) has been developed. Before, we analysed in detail the
existence, (non)uniqueness and regularity of solutions of a
class of quasilinear second-order ordinary differential equations for
initial data prescribed at a singularity in
[93]
. As support for this research, we developed a Matlab package for
the numerical visualisation of some low-dimensional situations
[42]
.
- A key topic in our biological applications is the detection of
oscillations. In an earlier project, we developed algorithms
for effectively proving the appearance of Hopf bifurcations
[33]
. Within
the Symbiont project, we
were generally concerned with the development of symbolic methods for
biological networks. A description of the project was published in
[38]
. Already in the preparation for the research training
group Biological Clocks on Multiple Time Scales, I
participated in a study of the population dynamics of diatoms; first
results can be found in [50] and a survey in
[50]
. Now, I am working with a Ph.D. student on
questions related to symmetries, conservation laws and model
reduction.
- We are much interested in using Pommaret bases for the
determination and analysis of free resolutions of polynomial
modules. In
[32]
we combined them with discrete
Morse theory to obtain efficient algorithms capable of determining
individual Betti numbers. Some further results in this direction can be
found in
[36,
43,
79]
.
- A general problem in the use of Pommaret bases is the fact
that they only exist in generic coordinates. An in-depth study of this
problem can be found in
[35]
, but it was also important
in
[39,
78]
. A highlight
[41]
was the use of Pommaret bases for the analysis
of Hilbert and Quot schemes. Again the coordinate dependence
played a crucial role. We are now working on an extension to such
schemes over quotient rings
[41]
.
- A fairly recent topic for me are complexity questions in
commutative algebra.
[40,
86]
contain some
general results on bounds for Gröbner bases using techniques from
involutive bases. In
[44]
we provided the first
complexity results for involutive bases.
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My work has been funded by various grants mainly from Studienstiftung des
Deutschen Volkes (German National Scholarship Foundation), from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG) (German Science Foundation) and from the European Commission.
At national level, I was from 2009 to 2016 a member of the steering
group of the Special Priority
Programme Algorithmic and Experimental Methods in Algebra, Geometry
and Number Theory (SPP 1489). Within this programme, I conducted
jointly with my
colleague Andreas Weber (Universität Bonn) the project
Bifurcations and Singularities of Algebraic Differential
Equations (BISADE). Later, I participated with my group in the
project Symbolic Methods
for Biological Networks (SYMBIONT) which may be considered as a
successor of BISADE. It was a German-French project with participants in
Aachen, Bonn, Lille, Montpellier, Nancy and Paris (a poster describing the
project is available here). Currently, I am a member of the DFG research and
training group Biological Clocks on Multiple Time Scales. In
addition, I have received various grants for international collaborations
with groups in Dubna, Genoa, Plymouth, Tbilissi and Torino, for the
organisation of conferences like CASC and ACA and for guest scientists from
Russia, Iran and Italy.

At European level, I participated in an INTAS project with the title
Involutive Systems of Algebraic and Differential Equations (INTAS
99-1112) in which groups from Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Greifswald, Bangor,
Catania, Dubna, Moscow and Novosibirsk collaborated between 2000 and 2002.
In 2005/6 I headed the Heidelberg team of a European research project
called Global Integrability of Field Theories (GIFT)
within the NEST-Adventure programme of the European Commission. The
other teams were located in Karlsruhe, Grenoble, Toulouse, Amsterdam and
Lancaster. Between 2016 and 2018, my group participated in the European
project (FET-CSA) Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation
with the other teams located in Aachen, Bath, Coventry, Genoa, Linz, Nancy,
Oxford and Trento.
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The following list contains students who have written or are writing theses
under my supervision.
- Undergraduate Theses (Bachelor, Master, Diploma, etc.)
- Samuel Maar: Schreyer Theorem for Staggered Linear Bases of
Polynomial Ideals; bachelor thesis, Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Kassel 2024
- Nicolas Jagersma: Staggered Linear Bases in the CoCoALib;
bachelor thesis, Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Kassel 2024
- Marco Czech: Mathematical Foundations of Public Key
Cryptography; teacher thesis, Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Kassel 2024
- Moritz Rieger: Points, Vectors and Affine Maps in Analytic
Geometry; teacher thesis, Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Kassel 2023
- Samer Aljerf: Modular Computations with Applications in Coding
Theory; teacher thesis, Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Kassel 2023
- Malvin Xibraku: Dirac Theory for Systems with Constraints;
master thesis; Universität Kassel 2022
- Filip Skrentny: Janet Bases and Trees in CoCoA; master thesis;
Universität Kassel 2022
- Rüdiger Nather: Recursive Computation of Pommaret bases;
master thesis, Institut für Mathematik, Universität Kassel
2022
- Rüdiger Nather: Visualisation of solutions of ordinary
differential equations with complex time variables; bachelor thesis,
Institut für Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2021
- Marvin Brandenstein: Triangular sets in commutative and
differential algebra; master thesis, Institut für
Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2021
- Nico Burmeister: Qualitative Analysis of Continuous and
Deterministic Models of Population Dynamics; teacher thesis,
Institut für Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2020
- Alice Moallemy: Primary Decomposition and Quasi-Stability;
master thesis, Institut für Mathematik, Universität Kassel
2020
- Oliver Koch: In-silico Vorhersage peroxisomaler Matrixproteine im
Proteom von Dictyostelium discoideum; bachelor thesis, Institut
für Biologie, Universität Kassel 2020 (joint supervision
with Markus Maniak)
- Thomas Izgin: The Involutive GVW Algorithm and the Computation of
Pommaret Bases; master thesis, Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Kassel 2020
- Filip Skrentny: The Gröbner Walk;
bachelor thesis, Institut für Mathematik, Universität
Kassel 2019
- Marco Horn: Theory and Application of Reed-Solomon Codes;
teacher thesis project, Institut für Mathematik, Universität
Kassel 2018
- Marvin Brandenstein: On Characteristic Chains and their
Applications; bachelor thesis, Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Kassel 2018
- Alice Moallemy: The Computation of the Radical of Polynomial
Ideals; bachelor thesis, Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Kassel 2018
- Markus Fülle: Gröbner Bases in Affine Monoid
Algebras; bachelor thesis, Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Kassel 2018
- Thomas Izgin: The Computation of Gröbner Bases and Syzygies
with the GVW Algorithm; bachelor thesis, Institut für
Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2017
- Julian Körting: Algorithmic Factorisation of Univariate
Polynomials over the Integers and over the Rationals; teacher
thesis, Institut für Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2017
- Elishan Braun: Numerical Analysis and Visualisation of Implicit
Ordinary Differential Equations; master thesis, Institut für
Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2017
- Maxim Urich: Geometric Theory of Singularity Induced
Bifurcations; master thesis, Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Kassel 2016
- Matthias Orth: Constructive Theory of Inverse Systems; master
thesis, Institut für Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2016
- Frederick Mücker: Effective Computations with Module
Homomorphisms in the CoCoALib; diploma thesis, Institut
für Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2015
- Sven Nummer: On the Deterministic Modeling of Epidemies and
Endemies after Kermack and McKendrick; teacher thesis, Institut
für Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2015
- Matthias Orth: Stable Ideals and Genericity; bachelor thesis,
Institut für Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2014
- Julius Rahaus: Involutive Bases in Clifford Algebras; bachelor
thesis, Institut für Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2014
- Pierre Pytlik: Effective Genericity for Polynomial Ideals;
diploma thesis, Institut für Mathematik, Universität Kassel
2014
- Maxim Urich: Geometric Completion of Differential Algebraic
Equations; bachelor thesis, Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Kassel 2013
- Mario Albert: Computing Minimal Free Resolutions of Polynomial Ideals
with Pommaret Bases; master thesis, Institut für
Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2013
- Elishan Braun: Discrete Gradient Methods for Hamiltonian Systems
with Constraints; bachelor thesis, Institut für
Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2013
- Sebastian Schütz: Combinatorics of Hilbert Functions;
diploma thesis, Institut für Mathematik, Universität Kassel
2012
- Mario Albert: Janet Bases in CoCoA; bachelor thesis, Institut
für Mathematik, Universität Kassel 2011
- Mehdi Sahbi: Pommaret Bases and the Computation of the Koszul Homology
in the Monomial Case; diploma thesis, Fakultät für
Informatik, Universität Karlsruhe 2007
- Mehdi Sahbi: The Effective Determination of Delta-Regular Coordinates
for Polynomial Ideals; study thesis, Fakultät für
Informatik, Universität Karlsruhe 2006
- Wolfgang Globke: An Object-Oriented Programming Environment for
Differential Geometric Computations in MuPAD; study thesis,
Fakultät für Informatik, Universität Karlsruhe 2006
- Marcus Hausdorf: Geometric-Algebraic Completion of General Systems of
Differential Equations; diploma thesis, Fakultät für
Informatik, Universität Karlsruhe 2000
- Marcus Hausdorf: A General Symmetry Package for Differential Equations
in MuPAD; study thesis, Fakultät für Informatik,
Universität Karlsruhe 1999
- Pavel Lukowicz: Applications of Computeralgebra on Problems in the
Statistical Physics of Neural Networks; diploma thesis, Fakultät
für Informatik, Universität Karlsruhe 1999
- Christoph Zenger: Gröbner-Basen for Differential Forms;
diploma thesis, Fakultät für Informatik, Universität
Karlsruhe 1992
- Joachim Schü: Implementation of the Cartan-Kuranishi Theorem in
Axiom; diploma thesis, Fakultät für Informatik,
Universität Karlsruhe 1992
- Ph.D. Theses
- Rodrigo Iglesias Gonzalez: Resolutions of Monomial Ideals;
thesis project, Universität Kassel and Departamento de Matematicas
y Computacion, Universidad de La Rioja, Logrono (Spain)
- Meskerem Abebaw Mebratie: Model reduction via symmetries and
conservation laws for systems on multiple time scales; thesis
project, Universität Kassel
- Ivan Morozov: Generation of Human Body Motion by Centralized
Networks; Universität Kassel 2023
- Matthias Orth: Generalized Involutive Bases and Their Induced
Free Resolutions; Universität Kassel 2022
- Christoph Lüders: Algorithmic Reduction of Biochemical Reaction
Networks; Universität Kassel and
Universität Bonn 2022
- Maxim Urich: Symmetries of Differential Equations via Vessiot
Theory; Universität Kassel 2021
- Hossein Parnian: Noether Bases and their Applications;
Ph.D. thesis, Isfahan University of Technology 2020
- Bentolhoda Binaei: Efficiency of Computations in Involutive Bases
Theory; Ph.D. thesis, Isfahan University of Technology 2019
- Mario Albert: Involutive Bases, Resolutions and Hilbert
Schemes, Universität Kassel and University of Torino
2017
- Matthias Fetzer: Free Resolutions from Involutive Bases,
Universität Kassel 2016
- Michael Schweinfurter: Deterministic Genericity and the
Computation of Homological Invariants, Universität Kassel
2016
- Hassan Errami: Semi-algebraic Algorithms for Symbolic Analysis of
Complex Reaction Networks, Universität Kassel and
Universität Bonn 2013
- Matthias Seiß: Root Parametrised Differential Equations for
Groups of Lie Type, Universität Kassel and Universität
Heidelberg 2011
- Eduardo Saenz de Cabezon: Combinatorial Koszul Homology:
Computations and Applications; Departamento de Matematicas y
Computacion, Universidad de La Rioja, Logrono (Spain) 2008
- Dirk Fesser: On Vessiot's Theory of Partial Differential
Equations; Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Kassel
2008
In addition, I have been referee or member of the jury for the following
theses:
- F. Ollivier: Effective Formal Resolution of Systems of Algebraic
Differential Equations, habilitation thesis, Ecole Polytechnique,
Paris (France) 2023
- S. Dörsam: Finite Element Simulation of Drugs Spreading in
the Vitreous, Ph.D. thesis, Universität Kassel 2022
- A. Desoeuvres: Methods from tropical geometry and interval
arithmetics for the analysis of biochemical networks: analysis of
homeostasis and model reduction in the presence of conservation
laws, Ph.D. thesis, University of Montpellier (France) 2021
- A. Karney: Zum Zusammenhang der Inhaltsbereiche Raum und Form und
Zahl und Operation, Ph.D. thesis, Universität Kassel 2021
- B. Teguia Tabuguia: Power Series Representations of
Hypergeometric Type and Non-Holonomic Functions in Computer Algebra,
Ph.D. thesis, Universität Kassel 2020
- H. Schatz: Automatic Computation of Continued Fraction
Representations as Solutions of Explicit Differential Equations,
Ph.D. thesis, Universität Kassel 2020
- M. Scheicher: Topics in Multidimensional Behavioural Algebraic
Systems Theory, habilitation thesis, Universität Innsbruck
2019
- G. Regensburger: Algebraic and algorithmic approaches to analysis:
Integro-differential equations, positive steady states, and
wavelets, habilitation thesis, Universität Linz 2019
- K. Fischer: Identification of Special Functions, given by
Rodrigues formulas, Ph.D. thesis, Universität Kassel 2016
- V. Levandovskyy: Computer Algebraic Analysis, habilitation
thesis, RWTH Aachen 2015
- A. Lakhal: Elimination in Ore Algebras, Ph.D. thesis,
Universität Kassel 2014
- J. Tautges: Reconstruction of Human Motions Based on Low-Dimensional
Control Signals, Ph.D. thesis, Universität Bonn 2012
- E.O. Abdel-Rahman: Algorithmic Contributions to the Qualitative
Analysis of Autonomous Parametric Dynamical Systems, Ph.D. thesis,
Universität Bonn 2011
- E. Nana Chiadjeu: Algorithmic Computation of Formal Fourier
Series, Ph.D. thesis, Universität Kassel 2010
- T. Wichmann: Symbolic Reduction Methods for Non-Linear DAE
Systems, Ph.D. thesis, Universität Kaiserslautern 2004
- T. Arponen: Numerical Solution and Structural Analysis of
Differential-Algebraic Equations, Ph.D. thesis, Helsinki
University of Technology (Finland) 2001
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