Nonsingular Ricci flow on a noncompact manifold in dimension three (Q1004555): Difference between revisions

As the authors point out the aim of this note is to get a global existence of Ricci flow with bounded nonnegative curvature operator in three dimensions. The local existence of the flow was obtained by Shi [\textit{W. X. Shi}, J. Differ. Geom. 30, 303--394 (1989; Zbl 0686.53037)]. The authors obtain the global existence by using ideas based on fundamental work of Hamilton [\textit{R. S. Hamilton}, J. Differ. Geom. 17, No.~2, 255--306 (1982; Zbl 0504.53034)] and \textit{G. Perelman} [arXiv e-print service, Cornell University Library, Paper No. 0211159, electronic only (2002; Zbl 1130.53001); arXiv e-print service, Cornell University Library, Paper No. 0303109, electronic only (2003; Zbl 1130.53002); arXiv e-print service, Cornell University Library, Paper No. 0307245, electronic only (2003; Zbl 1130.53003)], to show that the curvature is bounded in finite time. (For a detailed investigation of these seminal ideas see [\textit{J. Morgan, G. Tian}, Ricci flow and the Poincaré conjecture. Clay Mathematics Monographs 3. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS); (Cambridge), MA: Clay Mathematics Institute. (2007; Zbl 1179.57045)].) Specifically they prove: Theorem 1.1. Assume that \((M, g(t))\), \(t \in [0,T)\) is a Ricci flow on the 3-dimensional connected complete noncompact Riemannian manifold \((M, g(0))\). Suppose the curvature operator \(Rm\) of the initial metric \(g(0)\) is positive, i.e. \(Rm(g(0))\geq 0\) with \(|Rm(p,g(0)|\to 0\), \(d(o, p) \to \infty\), \(o\) a fixed point. Then \(T=\infty\), i.e. Ricci flow is nonsingular in finite time on such a manifold.