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作者:Ben Andrews/Christopher Hopper
出版社: Springer
副标题: A Complete Proof of the Differentiable 1/4-Pinching Sphere Theorem
出版年: 2010-11-29
页数: 302
定价: USD 59.95
装帧: Paperback
丛书: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
ISBN: 9783642162855

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This book focuses on Hamilton's Ricci flow, beginning with a detailed discussion of the required aspects of differential geometry, progressing through existence and regularity theory, compactness theorems for Riemannian manifolds, and Perelman's noncollapsing results, and culminating in a detailed analysis of the evolution of curvature, where recent breakthroughs of Böhm and Wi...

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Preface
Contents
Notation and List of Symbols
1: Introduction
1.1 Manifolds with Constant Sectional Curvature
1.2 The Topological Sphere Theorem
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Preface
Contents
Notation and List of Symbols
1: Introduction
1.1 Manifolds with Constant Sectional Curvature
1.2 The Topological Sphere Theorem
1.2.1 Remarks on the Classical Proof
1.2.2 Manifolds with Positive Isotropic Curvature
1.2.3 A Question of Optimality
1.3 The Differentiable Sphere Theorem
1.3.1 The Ricci Flow
1.3.2 Ricci Flow in Higher Dimensions
1.4 Where to Next?
2: Background Material
2.1 Smooth Manifolds
2.1.1 Tangent Space
2.2 Vector Bundles
2.2.1 Subbundles
2.2.2 Frame Bundles
2.3 Tensors
2.3.1 Tensor Products
2.3.2 Tensor Contractions
2.3.3 Tensor Bundles and Tensor Fields
2.3.4 Dual Bundles
2.3.5 Tensor Products of Bundles
2.3.6 A Test for Tensorality
2.4 Metric Tensors
2.4.1 Riemannian Metrics
2.4.2 The Product Metric
2.4.3 Metric Contractions
2.4.4 Metrics on Bundles
2.4.5 Metric on Dual Bundles
2.4.6 Metric on Tensor Product Bundles
2.5 Connections
2.5.1 Covariant Derivative of Tensor Fields
2.5.2 The Second Covariant Derivative of Tensor Fields
2.5.3 Connections on Dual and Tensor Product Bundles
2.5.4 The Levi–Civita Connection
2.6 Connection Laplacian
2.7 Curvature
2.7.1 Curvature on Vector Bundles
2.7.2 Curvature on Dual and Tensor Product Bundles
2.7.3 Curvature on the Tensor Bundle
2.7.4 Riemannian Curvature
2.7.5 Ricci and Scalar Curvature
2.7.6 Sectional Curvature
2.7.7 Berger's Lemma
2.8 Pullback Bundle Structure
2.8.1 Restrictions
2.8.2 Pushforwards
2.8.3 Pullbacks of Tensors
2.8.4 The Pullback Connection
2.8.5 Parallel Transport
2.8.6 Product Manifolds' Tangent Space Decomposition
2.8.7 Connections and Metrics on Subbundles
2.8.8 The Taylor Expansion of a Riemannian Metric
2.9 Integration and Divergence Theorems
2.9.1 Remarks on the Divergence Expression
3: Harmonic Mappings
3.1 Global Existence of Geodesics
3.2 Harmonic Map Heat Flow
3.2.1 Gradient Flow of E
3.2.2 Evolution of the Energy Density
3.2.3 Energy Density Bounds
3.2.4 Higher Regularity
3.2.5 Stability Lemma of Hartman
3.2.6 Convergence to a Harmonic Map
3.2.7 Further Results
4: Evolution of the Curvature
4.1 Introducing the Ricci Flow
4.1.1 Exact Solutions
4.1.2 Diffeomorphism Invariance
4.1.3 Parabolic Rescaling of the Ricci Flow
4.2 The Laplacian of Curvature
4.2.1 Quadratic Curvature Tensor
4.2.2 Calculating the Connection Laplacian ΔR_{ijkl}
4.3 Metric Variation Formulas
4.3.1 Interpreting the Time Derivative
4.3.2 Variation Formulas of the Curvature
4.4 Evolution of the Curvature Under the Ricci Flow
4.5 A Closer Look at the Curvature Tensor
4.5.1 Kulkarni–Nomizu Product
4.5.2 Weyl Curvature Tensor
4.5.3 Sphere Theorem of Huisken–Margerin–Nishikawa
5: Short-Time Existence
5.1 The Symbol
5.1.1 Linear Differential Operators
5.1.2 Nonlinear Differential Operators
5.2 The Linearisation of the Ricci Tensor
5.3 Ellipticity and the Bianchi Identities
5.3.1 Diffeomorphism Invariance of Curvature and the Bianchi Identities
5.4 DeTurck's Trick
5.4.1 Motivation
5.4.2 Relating Ricci–DeTurck Flow to Ricci Flow
6: Uhlenbeck's Trick
6.1 Abstract Bundle Approach
6.2 Orthonormal Frame Approach
6.2.1 The Frame Bundle
6.2.2 Time-Dependent Frame Bundlesand the Ricci Flow
6.3 Time-Dependent Metrics and Vector Bundles Over M × \mathbb{R}
6.3.1 Spatial Tangent Bundleand Time-Dependent Metrics
6.3.2 Alternative Derivation of the Evolution of Curvature Equation
7: The Weak Maximum Principle
7.1 Elementary Analysis
7.2 Scalar Maximum Principle
7.2.1 Lower Bounds on the Scalar Curvature
7.2.2 Doubling-Time Estimates
7.3 Maximum Principle for Symmetric 2-Tensors
7.4 Vector Bundle Maximum Principle
7.4.1 Statement of Maximum Principle
7.5 Applications of the Vector Bundle Maximum Principle
7.5.1 Maximum Principle for Symmetric 2-Tensors Revisited
7.5.2 Reaction-Diffusion Equation Applications
7.5.3 Applications to the Ricci Flow When n = 3
8: Regularity and Long-Time Existence
8.1 Regularity: The Global Shi Estimates
8.2 Long-Time Existence
9: The Compactness Theorem for Riemannian Manifolds
9.1 Different Notions of Convergence
9.1.1 Convergence of Continuous Functions
9.1.2 The Space of C^∞-Functions and the C^p-Norm
9.1.3 Convergence of a Sequence of Sections of a Bundle
9.2 Cheeger–Gromov Convergence
9.2.1 Expanding Sphere Example
9.2.2 The Rosenau Metrics
9.3 Statement of the Compactness Theorem
9.3.1 Statement of the Compactness Theorem for Flows
9.4 Proof of the Compactness Theorem for Flows
9.4.1 The Arzelà–Ascoli Theorem
9.4.2 The Proof
9.5 Blowing Up of Singularities
10: The \mathcal{F}-functional and Gradient Flows
10.1 Introducing the Gradient Flow Formulation
10.2 Einstein-Hilbert Functional
10.3 The \mathcal{F}-functional
10.4 Gradient Flow of \mathcal{F}^m and Associated Coupled Equations
10.4.1 Coupled Systems and the Ricci Flow
10.4.2 Monotonicity of \mathcal{F} from the Monotonicity of \mathcal{F}^m
11: The \mathcal{W}-Functional and Local Noncollapsing
11.1 Entropy \mathcal{W}-Functional
11.2 Gradient Flow of \mathcal{W} and Monotonicity
11.2.1 Monotonicity of \mathcal{W} from a Pointwise Estimate
11.3 µ-Functional
11.4 Local Noncollapsing Theorem
11.4.1 Local Noncollapsing Implies Injectivity Radius Bounds
11.5 The Blow-Up of Singularities and Local Noncollapsing
11.6 Remarks Concerning Perel'man's MotivationFrom Physics
12: An Algebraic Identity for Curvature Operators
12.1 A Closer Look at Tensor Bundles
12.1.1 Invariant Tensor Bundles
12.1.2 Constructing Subsets in Invariant Subbundles
12.1.3 Checking that the Vector Field Pointsinto the Set
12.2 Algebraic Curvature Operators
12.2.1 Interpreting the Reaction Terms
12.2.2 Algebraic Relationships and Generalisations
12.3 Decomposition of Algebraic Curvature Operators
12.3.1 Schur's Lemma
12.3.2 The Q-Operator and the Weyl Subspace
12.3.3 Algebraic Lemmas of Böhm and Wilking
12.4 A Family of Transformations for the Ricci flow
13: The Cone Construction of Böhm and Wilking
13.1 New Invariant Sets
13.1.1 Initial Cone Assumptions
13.2 Generalised Pinching Sets
13.2.1 Generalised Pinching Set Existence Theorem
14: Preserving Positive Isotropic Curvature
14.1 Positive Isotropic Curvature
14.2 The 1/4-Pinching Condition and PIC
14.2.1 The Cone Ĉ_{PIC_k}
14.2.2 An Algebraic Characterisation of the Cone Ĉ_{PIC_2}
14.3 PIC is Preserved by the Ricci Flow
14.3.1 Inequalities from the Second Derivative Test
14.4 PCSC is Preserved by the Ricci Flow
14.4.1 The Mok Lemma
14.4.2 Preservation of PCSC Proof
14.4.3 Relating PCSC to PIC
14.5 Preserving PIC Using the Complexification
15: The Final Argument
15.1 Proof of the Sphere Theorem
15.2 Refined Convergence Result
15.2.1 A Preserved Set Between Ĉ_{PIC_1} and Ĉ_{PIC_2}
15.2.2 A Pinching Set Argument
Appendix A: Gâteaux and Fréchet Differentiability
A.1 Properties of the Gateaux Derivative
Appendix B: Cones, Convex Sets and Support Functions
B.1 Convex Sets
B.2 Support Functions
B.3 The Distance From a Convex Set
B.4 Tangent and Normal Cones
B.5 Convex Sets Defined by Inequalities
Appendix C: Canonically Identifying Tensor Spaces with Lie Algebras
C.1 Lie Algebras
C.2 Tensor Spaces as Lie Algebras
C.3 The Space of Second Exterior Powers as a Lie Algebra
C.3.1 The space \bigwedge V* as a Lie Algebra
References
Index
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