TY - BOOK AU - Andrews,Ben AU - Hopper,Christopher ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The Ricci Flow in Riemannian Geometry: A Complete Proof of the Differentiable 1/4-Pinching Sphere Theorem T2 - Lecture Notes in Mathematics, SN - 9783642162862 AV - QA370-380 U1 - 515.353 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Mathematics KW - Global analysis KW - Differential equations, partial KW - Global differential geometry KW - Partial Differential Equations KW - Differential Geometry KW - Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds N1 - 1 Introduction -- 2 Background Material -- 3 Harmonic Mappings -- 4 Evolution of the Curvature -- 5 Short-Time Existence -- 6 Uhlenbeck’s Trick -- 7 The Weak Maximum Principle -- 8 Regularity and Long-Time Existence -- 9 The Compactness Theorem for Riemannian Manifolds -- 10 The F-Functional and Gradient Flows -- 11 The W-Functional and Local Noncollapsing -- 12 An Algebraic Identity for Curvature Operators -- 13 The Cone Construction of Böhm and Wilking -- 14 Preserving Positive Isotropic Curvature -- 15 The Final Argument N2 - This book focuses on Hamilton's Ricci flow, beginning with a detailed discussion of the required aspects of differential geometry, progressing through existence and regularity theory, compactness theorems for Riemannian manifolds, and Perelman's noncollapsing results, and culminating in a detailed analysis of the evolution of curvature, where recent breakthroughs of Böhm and Wilking and Brendle and Schoen have led to a proof of the differentiable 1/4-pinching sphere theorem UR - http://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-16286-2 ER -