The evolution of geometric structures on 3-manifolds

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01329-5zbMath1214.57017MaRDI QIDQ3168753

Curtis T. McMullen

Publication date: 19 April 2011

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

knots; Ricci flow; tilings; conjecture; evolution; hyperbolic; surfaces; 3-manifold; geometrization; Perelman

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57M50: General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds

57-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes

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