Metric Ricci Curvature and Flow for PL Manifolds

Emil Saucan[1]

  • [1] Department of Mathematics Technion HAIFA 32000 and Department of Mathematics and Computer Science The Open University of Israel RA’ANANA 43537 ISRAEL

Actes des rencontres du CIRM (2013)

  • Volume: 3, Issue: 1, page 119-129
  • ISSN: 2105-0597

Abstract

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We summarize here the main ideas and results of our papers [28], [14], as presented at the 2013 CIRM Meeting on Discrete curvature and we augment these by bringing up an application of one of our main results, namely to solving a problem regarding cube complexes.

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Saucan, Emil. "Metric Ricci Curvature and Flow for PL Manifolds." Actes des rencontres du CIRM 3.1 (2013): 119-129. <http://eudml.org/doc/275405>.

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author = {Saucan, Emil},
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keywords = {Wald-Berestovskii curvature; PL manifold; Ricci curvature; surface Ricci flow; Bonnet-Myers Theorem; fitting; Bonnet-Myers theorem},
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