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In this chapter and the next we look at one of the most important recent developments in the theory of Ricci flow: The work of Böhm and Wilking [BW08] which gives a method for producing whole families of preserved convex sets for the Ricci flow from a given one. This remarkable new method has broken through what was an enormous barrier to further applications of Ricci flow: In particular the proof of the differentiable sphere theorem relies heavily on this work.
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Andrews, B., Hopper, C. (2011). An Algebraic Identity for Curvature Operators. In: The Ricci Flow in Riemannian Geometry. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16286-2_12
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