High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In differential geometry, the Ricci flow is an intrinsic geometric flow (a process which deforms the metric of a Riemannian manifold) in this case in a manner formally analogous to the diffusion of heat, thereby smoothing out irregularities in the metric. It plays an important role in Grigori Perelman's solution of the Poincare conjecture; in this context is also called the Ricci–Hamilton flow.The Ricci flow (named after Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro) was introduced by Richard Hamilton in 1981 in order to gain insight into the geometrization conjecture of William Thurston, which concerns the topological classification of three-dimensional smooth manifolds. Hamilton's idea was to define a kind of nonlinear diffusion equation which would tend to smooth out irregularities in the metric. Then, by placing an arbitrary metric g on a given smooth manifold M and evolving the metric by the Ricci flow, the metric should approach a particularly nice metric, which might constitute a canonical form for M.

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