Ricci flow of warped Berger metrics on $\mathbb{R}^{4}$
Abstract
We study the Ricci flow on starting at an SU(2)-cohomogeneity 1 metric whose restriction to any hypersphere is a Berger metric. We prove that if has no necks and is bounded by a cylinder, then the solution develops a global Type-II singularity and converges to the Bryant soliton when suitably dilated at the origin. This is the first example in dimension of a non-rotationally symmetric Type-II flow converging to a rotationally symmetric singularity model. Next, we show that if instead has no necks, its curvature decays and the Hopf fibers are not collapsed, then the solution is immortal. Finally, we prove that if the flow is Type-I, then there exist minimal 3-spheres for times close to the maximal time.
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@article{arxiv.1904.02236,
title = {Ricci flow of warped Berger metrics on $\mathbb{R}^{4}$},
author = {Francesco Di Giovanni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02236},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
40 pages, final version. Accepted in Calc. Var