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OverviewThis book gives a complete proof of the geometrization conjecture, which describes all compact 3-manifolds in terms of geometric pieces, i.e., 3-manifolds with locally homogeneous metrics of finite volume. The method is to understand the limits as time goes to infinity of Ricci flow with surgery. The first half of the book is devoted to showing that these limits divide naturally along incompressible tori into pieces on which the metric is converging smoothly to hyperbolic metrics and pieces that are locally more and more volume collapsed. The second half of the book is devoted to showing that the latter pieces are themselves geometric. This is established by showing that the Gromov-Hausdorff limits of sequences of more and more locally volume collapsed 3-manifolds are Alexandrov spaces of dimension at most 2 and then classifying these Alexandrov spaces. In the course of proving the geometrization conjecture, the authors provide an overview of the main results about Ricci flows with surgery on 3-dimensional manifolds, introducing the reader to this difficult material. The book also includes an elementary introduction to Gromov-Hausdorff limits and to the basics of the theory of Alexandrov spaces. In addition, a complete picture of the local structure of Alexandrov surfaces is developed. All of these important topics are of independent interest. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Morgan , Gang TianPublisher: American Mathematical Society Imprint: American Mathematical Society Volume: 5 Weight: 0.692kg ISBN: 9780821852019ISBN 10: 0821852019 Pages: 291 Publication Date: 30 May 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsIntroduction Geometric and analytic results for Ricci flow with surgery Ricci flow with surger Limits as t?? Local results valid for large time Proofs of the three propositions Locally volume collapsed 3-manifolds Introduction to part II The collapsing theorem Overview of the rest of the argument Basics of Gromov-Hausdorff convergence Basics of Alexandrov spaces 2-dimensional Alexandrov spaces 3-dimensional analogues The global result The equivariant case The equivariant case Bibliography Glossary of symbols IndexReviewsIn the introduction the authors give a good outline of the proof so the reader can catch the spirit of such a complex proof. In the course of proving the conjecture, the authors apply very difficult tools reviewed in the book. They give a good survey on Ricci flows with surgery on 3-dimensional manifolds and they discuss in details the properties of the Hausdorff-Gromov distance and the theory of Alexandrov spaces . - Janos Kincses, Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged). Author InformationJohn Morgan, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, NY. Gang Tian, Princeton University, NJ, and Peking University, Beijing, China. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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