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Perelman's Entropy Functional at Type I Singularities of the Ricci Flow

Differential Geometry 2015-10-14 v3

Abstract

We study blow-ups around fixed points at Type I singularities of the Ricci flow on closed manifolds using Perelman's W-functional. First, we give an alternative proof of the result obtained by Naber and Enders-M\"{u}ller-Topping that blow-up limits are non-flat gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. Our second and main result relates a limit W-density at a Type I singular point to the entropy of the limit gradient shrinking soliton obtained by blowing-up at this point. In particular, we show that no entropy is lost at infinity during the blow-up process.

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@article{arxiv.1205.4143,
  title  = {Perelman's Entropy Functional at Type I Singularities of the Ricci Flow},
  author = {Carlo Mantegazza and Reto Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4143},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

21 pages. Introduction and references updated