Surveys in Differential Geometry · 2007 · 88 citations · 68 references
Natural SciencesMathematicsComputational GeometryGeometryTopologyComplex GeometryDifferential GeometryGeometric TopologyRiemannian GeometryCompact Complex ManifoldsRicci CurvatureRicci Flow
introduced the Ricci flow to study compact three-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature. Through decades of works of many mathematicians, the Ricci flow has been widely used to study the topology, geometry and complex structure of manifolds. In particular, Hamilton's fundamental works (cf.
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