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Bennett Chow
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 42
Citations - 3215
Bennett Chow is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ricci flow & Ricci curvature. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 39 publications receiving 2975 citations. Previous affiliations of Bennett Chow include East China Normal University & University of Minnesota.
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The Ricci Flow: An Introduction
Bennett Chow,Dan Knopf +1 more
TL;DR: The Ricci flow of special geometries Special and limit solutions Short time existence Maximum principles The Ricci Flow on surfaces Three-manifolds of positive Ricci curvature Derivative estimates Singularities and the limits of their dilations Type I singularities as discussed by the authors.
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Hamilton's Ricci Flow
Bennett Chow,Peng Lu,Lei Ni +2 more
TL;DR: Riemannian geometry and singularity analysis of Ricci flow have been studied in this paper, where Ricci solitons and special solutions have been used for geometric flows.
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The Ricci Flow: Techniques and Applications
Bennett Chow,Bennett Chow,Sun-Chin Chu,David Glickenstein,Christine Guenther,James Isenberg,Tom Ivey,Dan Knopf,Peng Lu,Feng Luo,Lei Ni +10 more
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The Ricci Flow: Techniques and Applications: Part II: Analytic Aspects
Bennett Chow,Bennett Chow,Sun-Chin Chu,David Glickenstein,Christine Guenther,James Isenberg,Tom Ivey,Dan Knopf,Peng Lu,Feng Luo,Lei Ni +10 more
Abstract: Contents Preface ix What Part II is about ix Highlights and interdependences of Part II xi Acknowledgments xiii Contents of Part II of Volume Two xvii Notation and Symbols xxiii Chapter 10. Weak Maximum Principles for Scalars, Tensors, and Systems 1 1. Weak maximum principles for scalars and symmetric 2-tensors 2 2. Vector bundle formulation of the weak maximum principle for systems 9 3. Spatial maximum function and its Dini derivatives 24 4. Convex sets, support functions, ODEs preserving convex sets 32 5. Proof of the WMP for systems: time-dependent sets and avoidance sets 43 6. Maximum principles for weak solutions of heat equations 47 7. Variants of maximum principles 56 8. Notes and commentary 65 Chapter 11. Closed Manifolds with Positive Curvature 67 1. Multilinear algebra related to the curvature operator 69 2. Algebraic curvature operators and Rm 77 3. A family of linear transformations and their effect on R 2 + R# 89 4. Proof of the main formula for D a ^(R) 94 5. The convex cone of 2-nonnegative algebraic curvature operators 105 6. A pinching family of convex cones in the space of algebraic curvature operators 116 7. Obtaining a generalized pinching set from a pinching family and the proof of Theorem 11.2 126 8. Summary of the proof of the convergence of Ricci flow 134 9. Notes and commentary 136 Chapter 12. Weak and Strong Maximum Principles on Noncompact Manifolds 139 vi CONTENTS