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    In mathematics, Thurston's geometrization conjecture (now a theorem) states that each of certain three-dimensional topological spaces has a unique geometric...
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  • Perelman presented his work proving the Poincaré conjecture (and the more powerful geometrization conjecture of William Thurston). Over the next several years...
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    the proof. The Poincaré conjecture and the spherical space form conjecture are corollaries of the geometrization conjecture, although there are shorter...
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    fields to 3-manifolds. Thurston was next led to formulate his geometrization conjecture. This gave a conjectural picture of 3-manifolds which indicated...
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    analysis of Ricci flow, and proved the Poincaré conjecture and Thurston's geometrization conjecture, the former of which had been a famous open problem...
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  • manifolds and diffeomorphisms. A proof of this conjecture, together with the more powerful geometrization conjecture, was given by Grigori Perelman in 2002 and...
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    William Thurston's geometrization conjecture, Hamilton produced a number of results in the 1990s which were directed towards the conjecture's resolution. In...
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    announcement of the geometrization conjecture, which proposed that all compact 3-manifolds could be decomposed into geometric pieces. This conjecture, later proven...
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    computational methods available in surgery theory. Thurston's geometrization conjecture, formulated in the late 1970s, offered a framework that suggested...
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    of results and ideas for using it to prove the Poincaré conjecture and geometrization conjecture from the field of geometric topology. Hamilton's work on...
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  • conjectures, see the references in the articles on geometrization conjecture or Poincaré conjecture. William Thurston. Three-dimensional geometry and topology...
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    latter is an outline of a proof of Thurston's geometrization conjecture, including the Poincaré conjecture as a particular case, uploaded by Grigori Perelman...
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  • geometry, geometrization theorem may refer to Thurston's hyperbolization theorem for Haken 3-manifolds Thurston's geometrization conjecture proved by...
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    a conjecture has been proven, it is no longer a conjecture but a theorem. Many important theorems were once conjectures, such as the Geometrization theorem...
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  • Spherical space form conjecture (Grigori Perelman, 2006) Poincaré conjecture (Grigori Perelman, 2002) Geometrization conjecture, (Grigori Perelman, series...
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    spaces such as Jacob's ladder. In dimension 3, William Thurston's geometrization conjecture, proven by Grigori Perelman, gives a partial classification of...
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  • generalization of the Poincaré conjecture to the non-simply connected case. The conjecture is implied by Thurston's geometrization conjecture, which was proven by...
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  • Thurston's geometrization theorem also follows from Perelman's proof using Ricci flow of the more general Thurston geometrization conjecture. Thurston's...
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  • the geometrization conjecture. Additionally, he posted a third article in which he gave a shortcut to the proof of the famous Poincaré conjecture, for...
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  • Poincaré Conjecture, Richard S. Hamilton's formulation of a strategy to prove the conjecture, and William Thurston's geometrization conjecture. Yau's long...
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    zero curvature/flat, and negative curvature/hyperbolic – and the geometrization conjecture (now theorem) in 3 dimensions – every 3-manifold can be cut into...
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  • claiming a resolution of the renowned Poincaré conjecture, along with the more general geometrization conjecture. His work contained a number of notable new...
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  • conjecture Kelvin's conjecture Kouchnirenko's conjecture Mertens conjecture Pólya conjecture, 1919 (1958) Ragsdale conjecture Schoenflies conjecture (disproved...
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  • 4-manifold (redirect from 11/8 conjecture)
    assign a geometry to a closed 3-manifold but the resolution of the Geometrization conjecture, proposed by William Thurston (1982), implies that closed 3-manifolds...
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  • After the proof of the geometrization conjecture by Perelman, the conjecture was only open for hyperbolic 3-manifolds. The conjecture is usually attributed...
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  • Dec 2006) Hamilton-Perelman's Proof of the Poincaré Conjecture and the Geometrization Conjecture revised from H.D.Cao and X.P.Zhu Asian J. Math., 10(2)...
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  • The hypotheses of the conjecture are satisfied by hyperbolic 3-manifolds. In fact, given that the geometrization conjecture is now settled, the only...
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  • – (2006). "Hamilton–Perelman's Proof of the Poincaré Conjecture and the Geometrization Conjecture". arXiv:math/0612069. do Carmo, Manfredo Perdigão (1992)...
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  • theory of Ricci flow solve the geometrization conjecture in three-dimensional topology, of which the renowned Poincaré conjecture is a special case. Perelman's...
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  • decomposition is not quite the same as the decomposition in the geometrization conjecture, because some of the pieces in the JSJ decomposition might not...
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