A note on uniformization of Riemann surfaces by Ricci flow
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Abstract:
We clarify that the Ricci flow can be used to give an independent proof of the uniformization theorem of Riemann surfaces.References
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Additional Information
- Xiuxiong Chen
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
- MR Author ID: 632654
- Email: xxchen@math.wisc.edu
- Peng Lu
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403
- MR Author ID: 308539
- Email: penglu@darkwing.uoregon.edu
- Gang Tian
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
- MR Author ID: 220655
- Email: tian@math.princeton.edu
- Received by editor(s): May 25, 2005
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 3, 2005
- Published electronically: June 6, 2006
- Additional Notes: The authors were supported in part by NSF research grants.
- Communicated by: Richard A. Wentworth
- © Copyright 2006
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 3391-3393
- MSC (2000): Primary 53C44
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08360-2
- MathSciNet review: 2231924