Klaus Kroencke
Lecture course Ricci flow, Summer term 2016
The course takes place Monday 10:15-11:45 in H2.
For the course, basic knowledge of Differential and Riemannian Geometry is preassumed. More precisely, you should be familiar with the following concepts: Riemannian manifolds, Levi-Civita connection,
geodesics, Jacobi fields and curvature quantities. Basic knowledge in Partial Differential Equations is very useful.
The Ricci flow is a powerful technique that integrates geometry, topology, and analysis. Intuitively, the idea is to set up a PDE that evolves a metric according to its Ricci curvature.
The resulting equation has much in common with the heat equation, wich tends to flow a given function to even nicer functions. By analogy, the Ricci flow
evolves an initial metric into improved metrics.
In this lecture course, we discuss the following topics: Einstein metrics and Ricci solitons, Ricci flow on surfaces and 3-manifolds, entropies
For the preparation of the course, I use the following books:
P. Topping | Lectures on the Ricci Flow | London Mathematical Society |
B. Chow, D. Knopf | The Ricci Flow: An Introduction | American Mathematical Society |
S. Brendle | Ricci Flow and the Sphere Theorem | AMS Graduate Studies in Mathematics |
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