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Stability of hyperbolic space under Ricci flow

Differential Geometry 2010-03-11 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study the Ricci flow of initial metrics which are C^0-perturbations of the hyperbolic metric on H^n. If the perturbation is bounded in the L^2-sense, and small enough in the C^0-sense, then we show the following: In dimensions four and higher, the scaled Ricci harmonic map heat flow of such a metric converges smoothly, uniformly and exponentially fast in all C^k-norms and in the L^2-norm to the hyperbolic metric as time approaches infinity. We also prove a related result for the Ricci flow and for the two-dimensional conformal Ricci flow.

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@article{arxiv.1003.2107,
  title  = {Stability of hyperbolic space under Ricci flow},
  author = {Oliver C. Schnürer and Felix Schulze and Miles Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.2107},
  year   = {2010}
}

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18 pages

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