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The Elliptization Conjecture is a special case of Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture , which was proved in 2003 by G. Perelman .

REFERENCES

For the proof of the conjectures, see the references in the articles on Geometrization Conjecture or Poincaré Conjecture .
  • William Thurston. ''Three-dimensional geometry and topology. Vol. 1''. Edited by Silvio Levy. Princeton Mathematical Series, 35. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1997. x+311 pp. ISBN 0-691-08304-5.

  • William Thurston. The Geometry and Topology of Three-Manifolds , 1980 Princeton lecture notes on geometric structures on 3-manifolds, that states his elliptization conjecture near the beginning of section 3.