Compactness properties of Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature
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 . The result has two main consequences: First, it implies that singularities in Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature have codimension 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: curvature bounds, integral bounds on the curvature radius, Gromov-Hausdorff closeness of time-slices, an -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}
}
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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)