Singular sets in noncollapsed Ricci flow limit spaces
Abstract
In this paper, we study the singular set of a noncollapsed Ricci flow limit space, arising as the pointed Gromov--Hausdorff limit of a sequence of closed Ricci flows with uniformly bounded entropy. The singular set admits a natural stratification: \begin{equation*} \mathcal S^0 \subset \mathcal S^1 \subset \cdots \subset \mathcal S^{n-2}=\mathcal S, \end{equation*} where a point if and only if no tangent flow at is -symmetric. In general, the Minkowski dimension of with respect to the spacetime distance is at most . We show that the subset , consisting of points where some tangent flow is given by a standard cylinder or its quotient, is parabolic -rectifiable. In dimension four, we prove the stronger statement that each stratum is parabolic -rectifiable for . Furthermore, we establish a sharp uniform -volume bound for and show that, up to a set of -measure zero, the tangent flow at any point in is backward unique. In addition, we derive -curvature bounds for four-dimensional closed Ricci flows. As an application, we resolve Perelman's bounded diameter conjecture for three-dimensional closed Ricci flows.
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@article{arxiv.2510.26317,
title = {Singular sets in noncollapsed Ricci flow limit spaces},
author = {Hanbing Fang and Yu Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.26317},
year = {2026}
}
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