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Convergence of Ricci flow solutions to Taub-NUT

Differential Geometry 2021-02-18 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study the Ricci flow starting at an SU(2) cohomogeneity-1 metric g0g_{0} on R4\mathbb{R}^{4} with monotone warping coefficients and whose restriction to any hypersphere is a Berger metric. If g0g_{0} has bounded Hopf-fiber, curvature controlled by the size of the orbits and opens faster than a paraboloid in the directions orthogonal to the Hopf-fiber, then the flow converges to the Taub-NUT metric gTNUTg_{\mathsf{TNUT}} in the Cheeger-Gromov sense in infinite time. We also classify the long-time behaviour when g0g_{0} is asymptotically flat. In order to identify infinite-time singularity models we obtain a uniqueness result for gTNUTg_{\mathsf{TNUT}}.

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@article{arxiv.2008.03969,
  title  = {Convergence of Ricci flow solutions to Taub-NUT},
  author = {Francesco Di Giovanni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.03969},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

49 pages, final version. Accepted in Commun. Partial. Differ. Equ