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The Ricci Flow: An Introduction
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Bennett Chow, University of California, San Diego, CA and Dan Knopf, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Publication: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs
Publication Year:
2004; Volume 110
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-3515-9 (print); 978-1-4704-1337-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/surv/110
MathSciNet review: MR2061425
MSC: Primary 53C44; Secondary 35K60, 53C21
Table of Contents
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Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- 1. The Ricci flow of special geometries
- 2. Special and limit solutions
- 3. Short time existence
- 4. Maximum principles
- 5. The Ricci flow on surfaces
- 6. Three-manifolds of positive Ricci curvature
- 7. Derivative estimates
- 8. Singularities and the limits of their dilations
- 9. Type I singularities
- Appendix A. The Ricci calculus
- Appendix B. Some results in comparison geometry