The Ricci flow on solvmanifolds of real type (Q2313353)

A solvmanifold is a simply-connected solvable Lie group \(S\) equipped with a left-invariant Riemannian metric. The group \(S\) is said to be of real type if \(S\) is non-abelian and for each element of its Lie algebra the corresponding adjoint map is either nilpotent or has an eigenvalue with non-zero real part. The main result of the paper under review is the following: Theorem. On a simply-connected solvable Lie group \(S\) of real type, any scalar-curvature-normalized homogeneous Ricci flow solution converges in Cheeger-Gromov topology to a non-flat solvsoliton \((\bar{S},\bar{g}_{\mathrm{sol}})\), which does not depend on the initial metric. Moreover, in the Einstein case, the authors prove that the convergence can be improved as follows. Theorem. Let \((S, g_E)\) be a non-flat Einstein solvmanifold. Then, any scalar-curvature-normalized homogeneous Ricci flow solution on \(S\) converges in \(C^{\infty}\) topology to \(\psi^*g_E\), for some \(\psi\in \mathrm{Aut}(S)\).