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Manifolds with positive curvature operators are space forms

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We confirm a conjecture of Hamilton: On compact manifolds the normalized Ricci flow evolves metrics with positive curvature operators to limit metrics with constant curvature.

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@article{arxiv.math/0606187,
  title  = {Manifolds with positive curvature operators are space forms},
  author = {Christoph Boehm and Burkhard Wilking},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0606187},
  year   = {2007}
}