Timeline for Ricci flow on two dimensional sphere
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| Jun 9, 2012 at 0:44 | vote | accept | Hee Kwon Lee | ||
| Jun 8, 2012 at 22:49 | comment | added | Dan Lee | That's what I was getting at when I wrote "unless you..." It's not quite as simple as you say since the embedding is only unique up to isometry (and as you point out, requires positive curvature). My basic point is that you can't ask about happens in some given situation when you haven't properly set up the situation. | |
| Jun 8, 2012 at 19:42 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | If the surface is positively curved, there is a unique embedding, so there is a completely canonical way to translate the flow into an extrinsic flow. | |
| Jun 8, 2012 at 18:21 | history | answered | Dan Lee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |