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The topological Cauchy-Schwarz inequality2 comments

Danny Calegari wrote 5 months ago: I recently made the final edits to my paper “Positivity of the universal pairing in 3 dimensio … more →

Tags: tqft, 3-manifolds, minimal surface, hyperbolic manifolds, volume inequality, unitary, universal pairing, compression body, Dijkgraaf-Witten

Cramer-Rao bound and Ricci flow II

mfrasca wrote 6 months ago: The paper I presented about this matter (see here) has been accepted by EuRad 2009 Conference. This … more →

Tags: Applied mathematics, mathematics, statistics, Liouville's equation, Cramer-Rao Bound, EuRad 2009

Cramer-Rao bound and Ricci flow5 comments

mfrasca wrote 10 months ago: Two dimensional Ricci flow is really easy to manage. In this case the equation takes a very simple f … more →

Tags: Physics, Applied mathematics, Quantum Gravity, statistics, Ricci soliton, Liouville's equation, Cramer-Rao Bound, Estimation Theory, Einstein equations

scalar curvature blowup at first singular time

thecooper wrote 10 months ago: I just figured out that Šešum’s proof that at a Ricci flow singularity in fact works, with a s … more →

Tags: Moderate, Šešum

Ricci blowup at first singular time

thecooper wrote 10 months ago: The major analytic task in geometric flows is to understand the structure of singularities.   The fi … more →

Tags: prerequisites required, Moderate

Ricci flow as a stochastic process4 comments

mfrasca wrote 10 months ago: Yesterday I have posted a paper on arxiv (see here). In this work I prove a theorem about Ricci flow … more →

Tags: Applied mathematics, mathematics, Quantum Gravity, wiener process, Wiener integral, Path Integrals, Riemannian manifold

Ricci solitons in two dimensions11 comments

mfrasca wrote 10 months ago: Today I have read recent changes to DispersiveWiki. This is a beautiful site about differential equa … more →

Tags: Physics, Applied mathematics, mathematics, Quantum Gravity, Ricci soliton, Liouville's equation, Two-dimensional quantum gravity

Ricci solitons5 comments

mfrasca wrote 10 months ago: These days I am looking at all this area of mathematical research born with Richard Hamilton and put … more →

Tags: Physics, mathematics, Quantum Gravity, Poincaré conjecture, Ricci soliton, Thurston conjecture

Classification of Almost Quarter-Pinched Manifolds4 comments

Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: Peter Petersen and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper, “Classification of Almost Quar … more →

Tags: math.DG, paper, exotic spheres, quarter-pinching, sphere theorem

Bohm and Wilking's method of deformation of Ricci flow invariant curvature conditions

matheuscmss wrote 1 year ago: In a previous post about the proof of the differentiable sphere theorem (due to S. Brendle and R. Sc … more →

Tags: Expository, math.DG, mathematics, Bohm and Wilking, Brendle and Schoen, pinching family of cones, positive curvature operators, Ricci flow invariant curvature conditions, spherical space-forms

The differentiable sphere theorem of Brendle and Schoen

matheuscmss wrote 1 year ago: A fundamental problem in Differential Geometry is the following: Problem. Determine the topology of … more →

Tags: Expository, math.DG, mathematics, Bohm and Wilking, Brendle and Schoen, isotropic curvature, Ricci flow invariant curvature conditions, sphere theorem

285G, Lecture 14: Stationary points of Perelman entropy or reduced volume are gradient shrinking solitons4 comments

Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: We continue our study of -solutions. In the previous lecture we primarily exploited the non-negative … more →

Tags: 285G - poincare conjecture, math.DG, gradient shrinking solitons, Perelman entropy, reduced volume

285G, Lecture 13: Li-Yau-Hamilton Harnack inequalities and κ-solutions 6 comments

Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: We now turn to the theory of parabolic Harnack inequalities, which control the variation over space … more →

Tags: 285G - poincare conjecture, math.AP, Harnack inequalities, kappa-solutions, strong maximum principle

285G, Lecture 11: κ-noncollapsing via Perelman reduced volume9 comments

Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: Having established the monotonicity of the Perelman reduced volume in the previous lecture (after fi … more →

Tags: 285G - poincare conjecture, math.DG, Entropy, non-collapsing, reduced volume

Grigori Perelman, Sylvia Nasser, Theodore Kaczynski and youtube4 comments

ectp wrote 1 year ago: Grigori Perelman is quite well known among the scientific-academics. The NewYorker article by Sylvia … more →

Tags: Grigori Perelman, Poincare conjucture, gregory perelman, Stephen Dubner, freakonomics, sylvia nasser, a beautiful mind, YouTube, Theodore John Kaczynski

285G, Lecture 6: Finite time extinction of the third homotopy group, II4 comments

Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: In this lecture we discuss Perelman’s original approach to finite time extinction of the third … more →

Tags: 285G - poincare conjecture, math.AP, math.DG, curvature, curve shortening flow, minimal disk, Perelman width, ramps

285G, Lecture 4: Finite time extinction of the second homotopy group 13 comments

Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: Returning (perhaps anticlimactically) to the subject of the Poincaré conjecture, recall from Lecture … more →

Tags: 285G - poincare conjecture, math.AT, math.DG, Gauss curvature, minimal surfaces, monotonicity formula, Sacks-Uhlenbeck theory, second fundamental group

Holomorphic forms on blue teapot

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 1 year ago: I was first introduced to the work of Xianfeng David Gu’s mesmerizing Escher-like visualizatio … more →

Tags: Art and Science, Visual.Arts, visualizations, Algorithms, computational conformal geometry, Escher, flickr, linear perspective, Perelman

285G, Lecture 3: The maximum principle, and the pinching phenomenon25 comments

Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: We now begin the study of (smooth) solutions to the Ricci flow equation , (1) particularly for compa … more →

Tags: math.AP, math.DG, 285G - poincare conjecture, Riemann curvature, maximum principle, tensor bundles, convexity, pinching phenomenon


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