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On the maximal rate of convergence under the Ricci flow

Differential Geometry 2020-09-09 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We estimate from above the rate at which a solution to the normalized Ricci flow on a closed manifold may converge to a limit soliton. Our main result implies that any solution which converges modulo diffeomorphisms to a soliton faster than any fixed exponential rate must itself be self-similar.

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@article{arxiv.2001.01272,
  title  = {On the maximal rate of convergence under the Ricci flow},
  author = {Brett Kotschwar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.01272},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v2: Minor corrections; 20 pages, no figures