The Ricci flow on the 2-sphere

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214446319MaRDI QIDQ810892zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bennett Chow

Publication date 1991

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214446319

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian curvatureRicci flowscalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Review text

Let \((M,g)\) be a compact oriented Riemannian surface. Hamilton's Ricci flow is defined as the solution \(g(x,t)\) of the differential equation \((\partial /\partial t)g(x,t)=(r-R(x,t))g(x,t)\) \((x\in M,\;t>0)\), where \(g\) is the metric, \(R\) is the scalar curvature of \(g\), and \(r\) is the average of \(R\). Generalizing a result of \textit{R. S. Hamilton} [Mathematics and general relativity, Proc. AMS-IMS-SIAM Jt. Summer Res. Conf., Santa Cruz/Calif. 1986, Contemp. Math. 71, 237--262 (1988; Zbl 0663.53031)], the author proves the following theorem: If \(g\) is any metric on \(S^ 2\), then under Hamilton's Ricci flow, the Gaussian curvature becomes positive in finite time. As a corollary the author obtains the following: If \(g\) is any metric on a Riemannian surface, then under Hamilton's Ricci flow, \(g\) converges to a metric of constant curvature.

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