Lectures on the Ricci flow

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Lectures on the Ricci flow

Peter Topping

(London Mathematical Society lecture note series, 325)

Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-111) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Hamilton's Ricci flow has attracted considerable attention since its introduction in 1982, owing partly to its promise in addressing the Poincare conjecture and Thurston's geometrization conjecture. This book gives a concise introduction to the subject with the hindsight of Perelman's breakthroughs from 2002/2003. After describing the basic properties of, and intuition behind the Ricci flow, core elements of the theory are discussed such as consequences of various forms of maximum principle, issues related to existence theory, and basic properties of singularities in the flow. A detailed exposition of Perelman's entropy functionals is combined with a description of Cheeger-Gromov-Hamilton compactness of manifolds and flows to show how a 'tangent' flow can be extracted from a singular Ricci flow. Finally, all these threads are pulled together to give a modern proof of Hamilton's theorem that a closed three-dimensional manifold whichcarries a metric of positive Ricci curvature is a spherical space form.

目次

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Riemannian geometry background
  • 3. The maximum principle
  • 4. Comments on existence theory for parabolic PDE
  • 5. Existence theory for the Ricci flow
  • 6. Ricci flow as a gradient flow
  • 7. Compactness of Riemannian manifolds and flows
  • 8. Perelman's W entropy functional
  • 9. Curvature pinching and preserved curvature properties under Ricci flow
  • 10. Three-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature and beyond.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA7875067X
  • ISBN
    • 9780521689472
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge, UK
  • ページ数/冊数
    x, 113 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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