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里奇流的宽度和有限消亡时

Width and finite extinction time of Ricci flow

Tobias H. Colding, William P. Minicozzi

摘要:

这是一篇简短的文章,为一般非专业观众提供完整的证明。结果是双重的。首先,我们讨论了一个几何不变,我们称之为宽度,一个流形,并显示它如何可以实现为最小2-球的面积之和。例如,当$M$是一个同伦3-球面时,其宽度可以不严格地说是“拉过”$M$所需的最小2-球面的面积。其次,我们利用这一点得出结论,Hamilton的里奇流在任何同伦3-球面上在有限时间内灭绝。我们选择写这篇文章是因为这里给出的结果和想法非常有用,而且似乎引起了广泛的关注。

英文摘要:

This is an expository article with complete proofs intended for a general non-specialist audience. The results are two-fold. First, we discuss a geometric invariant, that we call the width, of a manifold and show how it can be realized as the sum of areas of minimal 2-spheres. For instance, when $M$ is a homotopy 3-sphere, the width is loosely speaking the area of the smallest 2-sphere needed to ``pull over'' $M$. Second, we use this to conclude that Hamilton's Ricci flow becomes extinct in finite time on any homotopy 3-sphere. We have chosen to write this since the results and ideas given here are quite useful and seem to be of interest to a wide audience.

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