Ricci flow with surgery on four-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature (Q2434078): Difference between revisions

The authors study the Ricci flow on a compact \(4\)-manifold with positive isotropic curvature and with no essential incompressible space form, establishing a long-time existence result of the Ricci flow with surgery on \(4\)-manifolds. As a consequence, they obtain a complete proof of the main theorem of \textit{R. S. Hamilton} in [Commun. Anal. Geom. 5, No.~1, 1--92 (1997; Zbl 0892.53018)]. In the course of the proof, they also provide, up to slight modifications, the details of Section 1 to Section 5 of \textit{G. Perelman}'s second paper [arXiv e-print service, Cornell University Library, Paper No. 0307245, 7 p., electronic only (2003)] on the Ricci flow to approach the Poincaré conjecture.