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A numerical study of cohomogeneity one manifolds

dc.contributor.advisorWang, Mckenzie
dc.contributor.authorChiu, Vincent
dc.contributor.departmentMathematics and Statisticsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-05T18:40:04Z
dc.date.available2016-10-05T18:40:04Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores numerical solutions for the cohomogeneity one Einstein and Ricci soliton equations when the principal orbits are SU(3)/T^2 and Sp(3)/Sp(1)^3. We present new numerical evidence for steady, expanding solitons as well as Einstein metrics with positive scalar curvature. In the case of steady solitons we produced a one-parameter family of solutions. In the expanding case, we generated a two-parameter family of solutions and in particular in the negative Einstein case we generated a one-parameter family of solutions. In the compact Einstein case we found numerical evidence for an in nite number of Einstein metrics.en_US
dc.description.degreeMaster of Science (MSc)en_US
dc.description.degreetypeThesisen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11375/20601
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectDifferential Geometryen_US
dc.titleA numerical study of cohomogeneity one manifoldsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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