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On the Hamilton-Lott conjecture in higher dimensions

Differential Geometry 2024-03-19 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study nn-dimensional Ricci flows with non-negative Ricci curvature where the curvature is pointwise controlled by the scalar curvature and bounded by C/tC/t, starting at metric cones which are Reifenberg outside the tip. We show that any such flow behaves like a self-similar solution up to an exponential error in time. As an application, we show that smooth nn-dimensional complete non-compact Riemannian manifolds which are uniformly PIC1-pinched, with positive asymptotic volume ratio, are Euclidean. This confirms a higher dimensional version of a conjecture of Hamilton and Lott under the assumption of non-collapsing. It also yields a new and more direct proof of the original conjecture of Hamilton and Lott in three dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2403.00708,
  title  = {On the Hamilton-Lott conjecture in higher dimensions},
  author = {Alix Deruelle and Felix Schulze and Miles Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00708},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

34 pages, introduction slightly extended and references updated

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