nLab Jürgen Jost

Jürgen Jost is an applied mathematician at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Natural Science in Leipzig, studying string theory, geometry, the calculus of variations and geometric analysis, dynamical systems, cognitive and neural systems, theoretical and mathematical biology, economic and social systems, history of science and philosophy, graphs and networks and system theory.

• list of publications

Selected writings

On the Polyakov action and bosonic strings:

• Jürgen Jost, Bosonic Strings: A Mathematical Treatment, AMS/IP Stud. Adv. Math. 21 (2001) [ISBBN:978-0-8218-4336-9, spire:1388134]

On Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis:

• Jürgen Jost, Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis, Springer (2017) [doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61860-9]

On Seiberg-Witten theory:

• Shuhan Jiang, Jürgen Jost: Cohomological field theories and generalized Seiberg-Witten equations [arXiv:2407.04019]