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Ricci flow of warped Berger metrics on $\mathbb{R}^{4}$

Differential Geometry 2021-02-18 v4

Abstract

We study the Ricci flow on R4\mathbb{R}^{4} starting at an SU(2)-cohomogeneity 1 metric g0g_{0} whose restriction to any hypersphere is a Berger metric. We prove that if g0g_{0} 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 n>3n > 3 of a non-rotationally symmetric Type-II flow converging to a rotationally symmetric singularity model. Next, we show that if instead g0g_{0} 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