English

A note on Ricci flow from small curvature concentration and a Morrey-type condition

Differential Geometry 2026-04-01 v1

Abstract

In \cite{ChauMartens} the authors proved the long-time existence of Ricci flow starting from complete bounded curvature Riemannian manifolds with scale-invariant integral curvature bounded by a dimensional constant times the inverse of the Sobolev constant. We generalize this result by replacing the bounded curvature assumption with the assumption that gg is only equivalent to a complete bounded curvature metric hh while satisfying a Morrey-type condition on the gradient of gg relative to hh: a local integral condition on the covariant derivative hg\nabla_h g. The Morrey-type condition was first considered in \cite{LeeLiu} in the context of Ricci flow on non-compact manifolds, and in particular allows the possibility for gg to have unbounded curvature on MM. As in \cite{ChauMartens}, our long-time solution enjoys curvature decay estimates implying in particular that MM is diffeomorphic to Rn\mathbb{R}^n.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2603.28976,
  title  = {A note on Ricci flow from small curvature concentration and a Morrey-type condition},
  author = {Albert Chau and Adam Martens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.28976},
  year   = {2026}
}