Deforming three-manifolds with positive scalar curvature

• Autores: Fernando Codá Marques
• Localización: Annals of mathematics, ISSN 0003-486X, Vol. 176, Nº 2, 2012, págs. 815-863
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.4007/annals.2012.176.2.3
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• Resumen

  • In this paper we prove that the moduli space of metrics with positive scalar curvature of an orientable compact three-manifold is path-connected. The proof uses the Ricci flow with surgery, the conformal method, and the connected sum construction of Gromov and Lawson. The work of Perelman on Hamilton�s Ricci flow is fundamental. As one of the applications we prove the path-connectedness of the space of trace-free asymptotically flat solutions to the vacuum Einstein constraint equations on R 3