Positivity of the universal pairing in 3 dimensions

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-09-00642-0zbMath1201.57024arXiv0802.3208MaRDI QIDQ3584344

Kevin Walker, Danny Calegari, Michael Hartley Freedman

Publication date: 27 August 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3208

zbMATH Keywords

positivity; Ricci flow; minimal surfaces; hyperbolic geometry; 3-manifold; TQFT; geometrization; JSJ decomposition; manifold pairing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R56: Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology)

57M50: General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds

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