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Recent developments on the Ricci flow

Author(s): Huai-Dong Cao; Bennett Chow
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 59-74.
MSC (1991): Primary 58G11; Secondary 53C21, 35K55
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Abstract: This article reports recent developments of the research on Hamilton's Ricci flow and its applications.

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Additional Information:

Huai-Dong Cao
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
Email: cao@math.tamu.edu

Bennett Chow
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Email: bchow@math.umn.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00773-9
PII: S 0273-0979(99)00773-9
Received by editor(s): June 17, 1997, and in revised form October 15, 1998
Additional Notes: Authors partially supported by the NSF
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society

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