A Survey of Hamilton's Program for the Ricci Flow on 3-manifolds

2002/11/18 by Bennett Chow, Chow, Bennett
Mathematics · #53C44 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #math.DG #math.GT #msc:53C44

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0211266

18 pages, no figures

arxiv created 2002/11/18 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We give a brief survey of Hamilton's program for 3-manifolds as an approach toward Thurston's Geometrization Conjectre.

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