Subject: more on Perelman
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:38:57 -0800
From: vitali@mail.math.ucsb.edu
To: Don Davis <dmd1@lehigh.edu>

Dear Professor Davis,
Please post this as a response to the question about Perelman and
geometrization.

Below is the copy of my e-mail to Perelman and his reply. It's short but to the
point.

Vitali Kapovitch

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    Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:46:49 +0300 (MSK)
    From: Grigory Perelman <perelman@euclid.pdmi.ras.ru>
Reply-To: Grigory Perelman <perelman@euclid.pdmi.ras.ru>
 Subject: Re: geometrization
      To: Vitali Kapovitch <vitali@math.ucsb.edu>

That's correct.
Grisha

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Vitali Kapovitch wrote:

> Hi Grisha,
> Sorry to bother you but a lot of people are asking me about your preprint
> "The entropy formula for the Ricci...". Do I understand it correctly
> that while you can not yet do all the steps in the Hamilton program
> you can do enough so that using some collapsing results you can prove
> geometrization?
> Vitali
>

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