Recent developments on the Ricci flow
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This article reports recent developments of the research on Hamilton’s Ricci flow and its applications.References
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Additional Information
- Huai-Dong Cao
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
- MR Author ID: 224609
- ORCID: 0000-0002-4956-4849
- Email: cao@math.tamu.edu
- Bennett Chow
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
- MR Author ID: 229249
- Email: bchow@math.umn.edu
- Received by editor(s): June 17, 1997
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 15, 1998
- Additional Notes: Authors partially supported by the NSF
- © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 59-74
- MSC (1991): Primary 58G11; Secondary 53C21, 35K55
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00773-9
- MathSciNet review: 1655479