陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Distinguished Lecture Series III: Shing-Tung Yau, “Application of the Geometric Structures」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

On Friday, Yau concluded his lecture series by discussing the PDE approach to constructing geometric structures, particularly Einstein metrics , and their applications to many questions in low-dimensional topology (yes, this includes the Poincaré conjecture ). Yau also discussed the situation in high-dimensional topology, which appears to be completely different (and much less well understood).

In Yau’s previous talk, he discussed how one can (sometimes) construct geometric structures on complicated manifolds by gluing together structures on simpler manifolds (with boundary). This can be a powerful approach, but has a number of drawbacks:

已知结果和反例

In recent years it has become clear that methods from nonlinear PDE, especially nonlinear parabolic PDE, can be applied to construct geometric structures in the diffeomorphic category, even in the absence of strong topological control on the manifold; the idea is that a carefully chosen PDE can continue deforming an unknown structure until it becomes “recognizable” in some sense (e.g. it minimises or nearly minimises some functional). The difficulty is now moved into one of e

Short-time existence for parabolic equations is relatively easy, for instance by energy estimates and Sobolev embedding; however, one cannot simply iterate the short-time argument to get long-time control, because the Sobolev embedding constants depend on the geometry, which could be blowing up. It is thus necessary to seek other estimates and methods which are more independent of the evolution of the geometry; thus it is particularly useful to have bounds which depend only o

证明或构造的主线

There are many geometric structures that can be constructed in this way (e.g. harmonic maps are a good example), but Yau focused primarily on Einstein metrics – Riemannian metrics whose Ricci tensor is equal to a constant multiple of the metric itself. This constant has an interpretation in general relativity as the cosmological constant for the vacuum Einstein equations , and can be positive, zero, or negative. One should clarify that in general relativity, it is the Lorentz

Einstein metrics can be viewed as the higher-dimensional generalisation of the Poincaré metric for Riemann surfaces of higher genus. They are amazingly useful in low-dimensional topology, and later in this talk Yau discussed several applications of these metrics.

阅读时建议盯住的点

After choosing a suitable coordinate system (e.g. harmonic coordinates ), the Einstein equations become an elliptic system (basically because the Ricci operator resembles a Laplacian when viewed in a suitable coordinate system). Thus, on a compact manifold, we expect a relatively small number of solutions (just as there are relatively few eigenfunctions of the Laplacian). But it is not at all clear whether there exists such a metric at all, particularly if one wants to prescr

There seem to be three known strategies for constructing Einstein metrics:

值得单独记下的条目

• It only works well when there is plenty of control on the topology. In situations such as the Poincaré conjecture, in which the only a priori topological information is that the manifold is simply connected, this technique is not very effec
• Gluing most naturally takes place in the homeomorphic category. If one wants to work in the diffeomorphic category, the method either does not apply or has to be substantially reworked.
• Variational (minimax) methods;
• Methods assuming additional symmetry structure on the manifold (especially Kähler structure ); and

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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