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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, December 6, 2007 - 4:30pm

Gang Tian

Princeton University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

In this talk, we will discuss topological and geometric constraints on metrics with bounded Ricci curvature on a 4-manifold. One motivation is to check if there are only finitely many diffeomorphism types of 4-manifolds with bounded Ricci curvature and Euler number. The main tools are Ricci flow and the one in my previous work with J. Cheeger.