Lectures on the Ricci Flow
Topping, Peter
- 出版商: Cambridge
- 出版日期: 2006-10-12
- 售價: $2,760
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,622
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 113
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0521689473
- ISBN-13: 9780521689472
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微積分 Calculus
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Hamilton's Ricci flow has attracted considerable attention since its introduction in 1982, owing partly to its promise in addressing the Poincar 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 which carries a metric of positive Ricci curvature is a spherical space form.