Andrews / Hopper The Ricci Flow in Riemannian Geometry

A Complete Proof of the Differentiable 1/4-Pinching Sphere Theorem
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-3-642-16286-2
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Mathematics

This book focuses on Hamilton's Ricci flow, beginning with a detailed discussion of the required aspects of differential geometry, progressing through existence and regularity theory, compactness theorems for Riemannian manifolds, and Perelman's noncollapsing results, and culminating in a detailed analysis of the evolution of curvature, where recent breakthroughs of Böhm and Wilking and Brendle and Schoen have led to a proof of the differentiable 1/4-pinching sphere theorem.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrews, Ben

Hopper, Christopher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 Background Material.- 3 Harmonic Mappings.- 4 Evolution of the Curvature.- 5 Short-Time Existence.- 6 Uhlenbeck’s Trick.- 7 The Weak Maximum Principle.- 8 Regularity and Long-Time Existence.- 9 The Compactness Theorem for Riemannian Manifolds.- 10 The F-Functional and Gradient Flows.- 11 The W-Functional and Local Noncollapsing.- 12 An Algebraic Identity for Curvature Operators.- 13 The Cone Construction of Böhm and Wilking.- 14 Preserving Positive Isotropic Curvature.- 15 The Final Argument