Lecture Notes in Mathematics

By: Sebastien Boucksom (Editor), Philippe Eyssidieux (Editor), Vincent Guedj (Editor)

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Paperback | 14 October 2013

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This volume collects lecture notes from courses offered at several conferences and workshops, and provides the first exposition in book form of the basic theory of the Kaehler-Ricci flow and its current state-of-the-art. While several excellent books on Kaehler-Einstein geometry are available, there have been no such works on the Kaehler-Ricci flow. The book will serve as a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in complex differential geometry, complex algebraic geometry and Riemannian geometry, and will hopefully foster further developments in this fascinating area of research.

The Ricci flow was first introduced by R. Hamilton in the early 1980s, and is central in G. Perelman's celebrated proof of the Poincare conjecture. When specialized for Kaehler manifolds, it becomes the Kaehler-Ricci flow, and reduces to a scalar PDE (parabolic complex Monge-Ampere equation).
As a spin-off of his breakthrough, G. Perelman proved the convergence of the Kaehler-Ricci flow on Kaehler-Einstein manifolds of positive scalar curvature (Fano manifolds). Shortly after, G. Tian and J. Song discovered a complex analogue of Perelman's ideas: the Kaehler-Ricci flow is a metric embodiment of the Minimal Model Program of the underlying manifold, and flips and divisorial contractions assume the role of Perelman's surgeries.

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"This volume comprises contributions to a series of meetings centered around the K¤hler-Ricci flow that took place in Toulouse, Marseille, and Luminy in France, as well as in Marrakech, Morocco in 2010 and 2011. ... These contributions cover a wide range of the theory and applications of K¤hler-Ricci flow and are a welcome addition to the literature on this topic of great current interest in global analysis." (M. Kunzinger, Monatshefte f¼r Mathematik, 2015)

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