Normalized Ricci flows and conformally compact Einstein metrics
Differential Geometry
2011-06-03 v1 Analysis of PDEs
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the behavior of the normalized Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We show that the normalized Ricci flow exists globally and converges to an Einstein metric when starting from a non-degenerate and sufficiently Ricci pinched metric. More importantly we use maximum principles to establish the regularity of conformal compactness along the normalized Ricci flow including that of the limit metric at time infinity. Therefore we are able to recover the existence results in \cite{GL} \cite{Lee} \cite{Bi} of conformally compact Einstein metrics with conformal infinities which are perturbations of that of given non-degenerate conformally compact Einstein metrics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.0372,
title = {Normalized Ricci flows and conformally compact Einstein metrics},
author = {Jie Qing and Yuguang Shi and Jie Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.0372},
year = {2011}
}
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