A Survey of Einstein Metrics on 4-manifolds
Michael T. Anderson
1 Introduction
2 Brief review: 4-manifolds, complex surfaces and Einstein metrics
3 Constructions of Einstein metrics I
4 Obstructions to Einstein metrics
5 Moduli spaces I
6 ModuIi spaces II
7 Constructions of Einstein metrics II
8 Concluding remarks
References
Sphere Theorems in Geometry
Simon Brendle, Richard Schoen
1 The Topological Sphere Theorem
2 Manifolds with positive isotropic curvature
3 The Differentiable Sphere Theorem
4 New invariant curvature conditions for the Ricci flow
5 Rigidity results and the classification of weakly 1/4-pinched manifolds
6 Hamilton s differential Harnack inequality for the Ricci flow
7 Compactness of pointwise pinched manifolds
References
Curvature Flows and CMC Hypersurfaces
Claus Gerhardt
1 Introduction
2 Notations and preliminary results
3 Evolution equations for some geometric quantities.
4 Essential parabolic flow equations
5 Existence results
6 Curvature flows in Riemannian manifolds
7 Foliation of a spacetime by CMC hypersurfaces
8 The inverse mean curvature flow in Lorentzian spaces
References
Geometric Structures on Riemannian Manifolds
Naichung Conan Leung
1 Introduction
2 Topology of manifolds
2.1 Cohomology and geometry of differential forms
2.2 Hodge theorem
2.3 Witten-Morse theory
2.4 Vector bundles and gauge theory
3 Riemannian geometry
3.1 Torsion and Levi-Civita connections
3.2 Classification of Riemannian holonomy groups
3.3 Riemannian curvature tensors
3.4 Flat tori
3.5 Einstein metrics
3.6 Minimal submanifolds
3.7 Harmonic maps
4 Oriented four manifolds
4.1 Gauge theory in dimension four
4.2 Riemannian geometry in dimension four
5 Kaihler geometry
5.1 Kahler geometry -- complex aspects
5.2 Kahler geometry -- Riemannian aspects
5.3 Kahler geometry -- symplectic aspects
5.4 Gromov-Witten theory
6 Calabi-Yau geometry
6.1 Calabi-Yau manifolds
6.2 Special Lagrangian geometry
6.3 Mirror symmetry
6.4 K3 surfaces
7 Calabi-Yau 3-folds
7.1 Moduli of CY threefolds
7.2 Curves and surfaces in Calabi-Yau threefolds
7.3 Donaldson-Thomas bundles over Calabi-Yau threefolds.
7.4 Special Lagrangian submanifolds in CY3
7.5 Mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau threefolds
8 G2-geometry
8.1 G2-manifolds
8.2 Moduli of G2-manifolds
8.3 (Co-)associative geometry
8.4 G2-Donaldson-Thomas bundles
8.5 G2-dualities, trialities and M-theory
9 Geometry of vector cross products
9.1 VCP manifolds
9.2 Instantons and branes
9.3 Symplectic geometry on higher dimensional knot
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Symplectic Calabi-Yau Surfaces
Lectures on Stability and Constant Scalar Curvature
Analytic Aspect of Hamilton s Ricci Fl