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An Illustrated Introduction to the Ricci Flow

Differential Geometry 2022-01-17 v1 History and Overview

Abstract

The Ricci flow is one of the most important topics in differential geometry, and a central focus of modern geometric analysis. In this paper, we give an illustrated introduction to the subject which is intended for a general audience. The goal is to provide a working definition of the Ricci flow as well as some intuition for its behavior without assuming any prerequisite knowledge of differential geometry or topology.

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@article{arxiv.2201.04923,
  title  = {An Illustrated Introduction to the Ricci Flow},
  author = {Gabriel Khan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.04923},
  year   = {2022}
}

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42 pages, 22 figures

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