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.