The Ricci curvature Ric(g) is a symmetric 2-tensor on a Riemannian manifold (M,g) that encodes curvature information. It features in several interesting geometric PDEs such as the Ricci flow and the Einstein equation. The nature of Ric(g) as a differential operator — nonlinear and degenerate elliptic — make these equations particularly challenging.

Host: Peter McGrath

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