Rigidity and gap theorems for Ricci shrinkers
Differential Geometry
2026-05-12 v1
Abstract
We prove local versions of the Ricci curvature and -entropy gap theorems for Ricci shrinkers, which respectively generalize a previous result of Munteanu-Wang and a prior result of the authors with Ma. The key point is that these local gaps depend only on the dimension and not on the global entropy or any other geometric information of the Ricci shrinker. As an application, we provide a local criterion for removable Type~I singularities of the Ricci flow.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.08884,
title = {Rigidity and gap theorems for Ricci shrinkers},
author = {Pak-Yeung Chan and Yongjia Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08884},
year = {2026}
}