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Pinching estimates for solutions of the linearized Ricci flow system in higher dimensions

Differential Geometry 2016-02-19 v3

Abstract

We prove pinching estimates for solutions of the linearized Ricci flow system on a closed manifold of dimension n4n\geq 4 with positive scalar curvature and vanishing Weyl tensor. If the vanishing Weyl tensor condition is removed, we only give a rough pinching estimate controlled by some blow-up function in a short time. These results extend the 33-dimensional case due to Anderson and Chow (2005) \cite{[AC]}.

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@article{arxiv.1303.7170,
  title  = {Pinching estimates for solutions of the linearized Ricci flow system in higher dimensions},
  author = {Jia-Yong Wu and Jian-Biao Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.7170},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Final version, two examples are added, to appear in Differential Geom. Appl