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Local curvature estimates for the Ricci-harmonic flow

Differential Geometry 2018-10-24 v1

Abstract

In this paper we give an explicit bound of Δg(t)u(t)\Delta_{g(t)}u(t) and the local curvature estimates for the Ricci-harmonic flow under the condition that the Ricci curvature is bounded along the flow. In the second part these local curvature estimates are extended to a class of generalized Ricci flow, introduced by the author \cite{LY1}, whose stable points give Ricci-flat metrics on a complete manifold, and which is very close to the (K,N)(K, N)-super Ricci flow recently defined by Xiangdong Li and Songzi Li \cite{LL2014}. Next we propose a conjecture for Einstein's scalar field equations motivated by a result in the first part and the bounded L2L^{2}-curvature conjecture recently solved by Klainerman, Rodnianski and Szeftel \cite{KRS2015}. In the last two parts of this paper, we discuss two notions of "Riemann curvature tensor" in the sense of Wylie-Yeroshkin \cite{KW2017, KWY2017, Wylie2015, WY2016}, respectively, and Li \cite{LY3}, whose "Ricci curvature" both give the standard Bakey-\'Emery Ricci curvature \cite{BE1985}, and the forward and backward uniqueness for the Ricci-harmonic flow.

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@article{arxiv.1810.09760,
  title  = {Local curvature estimates for the Ricci-harmonic flow},
  author = {Yi Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.09760},
  year   = {2018}
}

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72 pages