PERELMAN'S PROOF OF THE POINCAR´ E CONJECTURE: A NONLINEAR PDE PERSPECTIVE

We discuss some of the key ideas of Perelman's proof of Poincare's conjecture via the Hamilton program of using the Ricci flow, from the perspec- tive of the modern theory of nonlinear partial differential equations.

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