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Compactness properties of Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature

Differential Geometry 2016-05-16 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper we prove a compactness result for Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature and entropy. It states that given any sequence of such Ricci flows, we can pass to a subsequence that converges to a metric space which is smooth away from a set of codimension 4\geq 4. The result has two main consequences: First, it implies that singularities in Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature have codimension 4\geq 4 and, second, it establishes a general form of the Hamilton-Tian Conjecture, which is even true in the Riemannian case. In the course of the proof, we will also establish the following results: Lp<4L^{p < 4} curvature bounds, integral bounds on the curvature radius, Gromov-Hausdorff closeness of time-slices, an ε\varepsilon-regularity theorem for Ricci flows and an improved backwards pseudolocality theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08527,
  title  = {Compactness properties of Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature},
  author = {Richard H. Bamler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08527},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This article has been divided into the following two articles: "Structure theory of singular spaces" (arXiv:1603.05236) and "Convergence of Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature" (arXiv:1603.05235)