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Curavture flow on symplectic manifolds

Presenter
November 1, 2011
Keywords:
  • Thurston's geometrization conjecture
  • Chern connection
  • Shiing-Shen Chern
  • differential geometry
  • symplectic geometry
  • Gromov-Witten theory
  • 3-manifolds
  • Ricci curvature
  • Perelman's proof
MSC:
  • 53D45
  • 53D42
  • 53Dxx
  • 53-xx
  • 53D25
  • 53C44
Abstract
Symplectic geometry has enjoyed tremendous progresses in last two decades, e.g., construction of the Gromov-Witten invariants and their connection to the string theory. Inspired by recent applications of curvature flows in geometry, in particular, Perelman's resolution of the Geometrization conjecture for 3-manifolds by Ricci flow introduced by Hamilton, J. Streets and I introduced a symplectic curvature flow. In this talk, I will discuss recent results on this new flow and show how it can be applied to studying symplectic manifolds.