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Lower bound of Ricci flow's existence time

Differential Geometry 2015-09-22 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let (Mn,g)(M^n, g) be a compact nn-dim (n2n\geq 2) manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature, and if n3n\geq 3 we assume that (Mn,g)×R(M^n, g)\times \mathbb{R} has nonnegative isotropic curvature. The lower bound of the Ricci flow's existence time on (Mn,g)(M^n, g) is proved. This provides an alternative proof for the uniform lower bound of a family of closed Ricci flows' maximal existence times, which was firstly proved by E. Cabezas-Rivas and B. Wilking. We also get an interior curvature estimates for n=3n= 3 under Rc0Rc\geq 0 assumption among others. Combining these results, we proved the short time existence of the Ricci flow on a large class of 33-dim open manifolds, which admit some suitable exhaustion covering and have nonnegative Ricci curvature.

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@article{arxiv.1210.5950,
  title  = {Lower bound of Ricci flow's existence time},
  author = {Guoyi Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.5950},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, to appear on Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society