Riemannian manifolds with small integral norm of curvature (Q1191880)

The author shows that a smooth complete Riemannian metric on a smooth \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) with sufficiently small \(L^ q\)-norm \((q>n)\) of the curvature tensor \(R_ M\) can be deformed to a complete metric for which the pointwise curvature is small compared to the inverse of the square of the injectivity radius. The idea is to deform the given metric with the Ricci flow. The necessary a-priori estimates are obtained by controlling the so-called weak injectivity radius via isoperimetric inequalities. Here for \(x\in M\) the weak injectivity radius \(\rho(x)\) in \(x\) is defined as the largest radius \(\rho\) for which the volume and the Sobolev constant on the \(\rho\)-ball about \(x\) can be compared in a suitable way to the volume and the Sobolev constants of (balls in) \(\mathbb{R}^ n\). As a corollary one obtains: For every \(q>n\) there is a number \(\varepsilon(n,q)>0\) such that every \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold \(M\) of finite volume with \(\text{vol}(M)^{(q/n)-1}\int| R_ M|^{q/2}d \text{vol}\leq\varepsilon(n,q)^{q/2}\) admits an \(F\)-structure of positive rank and hence collapses with bounded curvature.