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Estimates for the extinction time for the Ricci flow on certain 3-manifolds and a question of Perelman

  • Colding T
  • Minicozzi W
Journal of the American Mathematical Society (2005) 18(3) 561-569
DOI: 10.1090/s0894-0347-05-00486-8
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Abstract

We show that the Ricci flow becomes extinct in finite time on any Riemannian 3 3 -manifold without aspherical summands.

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Colding, T., & Minicozzi, W. (2005). Estimates for the extinction time for the Ricci flow on certain 3-manifolds and a question of Perelman. Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 18(3), 561–569. https://doi.org/10.1090/s0894-0347-05-00486-8

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