The Ricci Flow Techniques And Applications Bennett Chow Sunchin Chu David Glickenstein Christine Guenther James Isenberg Tom Ivey Dan Knopf Peng Lu Feng Luo Lei Ni by Bennett Chow & Sun-chin Chu & David Glickenstein & Christine Guenther & James Isenberg & Tom Ivey & Dan Knopf & Peng Lu & Feng Luo & Lei Ni 9780821839461, 0821839462 instant download after payment.

This book gives a presentation of topics in Hamilton's Ricci flow for graduate students and mathematicians interested in working in the subject. The authors have aimed at presenting technical material in a clear and detailed manner. In this volume, geometric aspects of the theory have been emphasized. The book presents the theory of Ricci solitons, Kahler-Ricci flow, compactness theorems, Perelman's entropy monotonicity and no local collapsing, Perelman's reduced distance function and applications to ancient solutions, and a primer of 3-manifold topology. Various technical aspects of Ricci flow have been explained in a clear and detailed manner. The authors have tried to make some advanced material accessible to graduate students and nonexperts. The book gives a rigorous introduction to Perelman's work and explains technical aspects of Ricci flow useful for singularity analysis. Throughout, there are appropriate references so that the reader may further pursue the statements and proofs of the various results.