Bruce Kleiner
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Bruce Alan Kleiner is an American mathematician, working in differential geometry and topology and geometric group theory.
He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of California, Berkeley. His advisor was Wu-Yi Hsiang. He is now Professor of Mathematics at New York University.
Kleiner has studied the Ricci flow. Together with John Lott, he filled in details of Grigori Perelman's proof of the Geometrization conjecture (from which the Poincaré conjecture follows) in the years 2003-2006. Theirs was the first publication acknowledging Perelman's accomplishment (in May, 2006), which was shortly followed by similar papers by Huai-Dong Cao and Xi-Ping Zhu (in June) and John Morgan and Gang Tian (in July).
Kleiner found a relatively simple proof of Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth.
[edit] References
- Kleiner, Bruce; Lott, John, Notes on Perelman's Papers, arΧiv:math.DG/0605667
- Kleiner, Bruce, A new proof of Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth, http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4593
