Title: The Ricci flow on the sphere with marked points
Speaker: Jian Song, Rutgers
Date: Friday, October 31, 2014
Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm
Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center
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Abstract: The Ricci flow on the 2-sphere with marked points is shown to converge in all three stable, semi-stable, and unstable cases. In the stable case, the flow was known to converge without any reparametrization, and a new proof of this fact is given. The semi-stable and unstable cases are new, and it is shown that the flow converges in the Gromov-Hausdorff topology to a limiting metric space which is also a 2-sphere, but with different marked points and hence a different complex structure. The limiting metric space carries a unique conical constant curvature metric in the semi-stable case, and a unique conical shrinking gradient Ricci soliton in the unstable case.