The Ricci Flow: Techniques and Applications: Long-time Solutions and Related Topics (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs) (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 206)

by Bennett Chow, David Glickenstein, Sun-Chin Chu

Ricci flow is a powerful technique using a heat-type equation to deform Riemannian metrics on manifolds to better metrics in the search for geometric decompositions. With the fourth part of their volume on techniques and applications of the theory, the authors discuss long-time solutions of the Ricci flow and related topics. In dimension 3, Perelman completed Hamilton's program to prove Thurston's geometrization conjecture. In higher dimensions the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821849913
• ISBN13: 9780821849910
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.0" x 7.3"