Rigidity of quasi-Einstein metrics

Lower Bounds on Ricci Curvature and the Almost Rigidity of Warped Products

Jeff Cheeger, Tobias Colding · Annals of Mathematics · 1996 · 600 citations

Complete Manifolds, Global Geometry, Geometric Partial Differential Equation +10

The Ricci flow on surfaces

Richard S. Hamilton · Contemporary mathematics - American Mathematical Society · 1988 · 524 citations

Fluid Mechanics, Geometric Flow, Geometric Partial Differential Equation +1

Gravitational instantons

S. W. Hawking · Physics Letters A · 1977 · 509 citations

Existence and Conformal Deformation of Metrics With Prescribed Gaussian and Scalar Curvatures

Jerry L. Kazdan, F. W. Warner · Annals of Mathematics · 1975 · 313 citations

Ricci solitons on compact three-manifolds

Thomas Ivey · Differential Geometry and its Applications · 1993 · 307 citations

Topological Soliton, Global Analysis, Ricci Flow +1