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Canonical smoothing of compact Alexandrov surfaces via Ricci flow

Differential Geometry 2012-04-25 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we show existence and uniqueness of Ricci flow whose initial condition is a compact Alexandrov surface with curvature bounded from below. This requires a weakening of the notion of initial condition which is able to deal with a priori non-Riemannian metric spaces. As a by-product, we obtain that the Ricci flow of a surface depends smoothly on Gromov-Hausdorff perturbations of the initial condition.

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@article{arxiv.1204.5461,
  title  = {Canonical smoothing of compact Alexandrov surfaces via Ricci flow},
  author = {Thomas Richard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.5461},
  year   = {2012}
}

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12 pages