Einstein Constraints and Ricci Flow

Mauro Carfora is Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. He is co-author with Annalisa Marzuoli of the Springer Lecture Notes in Physics Quantum Triangulations (LNP 845 and LNP 942), and illustrator of the popular relativity book Flat and Curved Spacetimes by George. F. R. Ellis and Ruth Williams.Annalisa Marzuoli is Associate Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. She is co-author with Jan Ambjørn and Mauro Carfora of the Springer Lecture Notes in Physics The Geometry of Dynamical Triangulations (Springer LNP m50).

“The book is well written and well motivated, hence warmly recommended to post-graduate and PhD students as well as researchers (both mathematicians and physicists) interested in modern global analysis and/or mathematical cosmology.” (Gábor Etesi, zbMATH 1536.53002, 2024)

• Introduction.- Geometric preliminaries.- Ricci flow background.- Ricci flow conjugation of initial data sets.- Concluding remarks.