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Geometry-Topology Reading Seminar

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 10:30am

Chenxu He

UPenn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

Ricci solitons are important in the study of the Ricci flow and it plays a direct role as singularity dilations in the Ricci flow in 3 dimension. Under certain curvature assumptions, Perelman classified 3 dimensional gradient shrinking solitons. I would like to present some results on 4 dimensional gradient shrinking solitons by Ni-Wallach and Naber which extend Perelman's results to the 4 dimensional case.