Ricci flow and the Poincaré Conjecture
Math 538, Spring 2009
Instructor: David Glickenstein
Office: Mathematics 715
Office Phone: 621-2463
Email: glickenstein@math.arizona.edu
Notes
Problems
Reference and Supplementary material
I will primarily be following the notes of Terrence Tao, available here.
They appear to be primarily based on the book by Morgan and Tian
listed
below.
Additional references:
- Ricci
flow
and the Poincaré
Conjecture, by J. Morgan and G. Tian. Preprint version is
also
available here.
- Completion of the
Proof
of the Geometrization Conjecture, by J. Morgan and G.
Tian.
- A
Complete Proof of the Poincaré and Geometrization
Conjectures -
application of the Hamilton-Perelman theory of the Ricci flow,
by
H.-D. Cao and X.-P. Zhu. There are also errata
for
this paper.
- Notes on
Perelman's papers, by B. Kleiner and J. Lott.
- The Ricci flow: An Introduction, by B. Chow and D. Knopf.
- Hamilton's Ricci flow, by B. Chow, P. Lu, and L. Ni.
- The Ricci flow: Techniques and Applications, Parts I and II,
by
B. Chow et al.
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