A caveat on the convergence of the Ricci flow for pinched negatively curved manifolds (Q2493477)

This short paper is concerned with the following problem: Can the Ricci flow be used to deform every sufficiently pinched to \(-1\) Riemannian metric to an Einstein metric with negative scalar curvature? The authors prove that for a given \(n>10\) and \(\varepsilon>0\) there is a closed smooth \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(N\) such that: (i) \(N\) admits a hyperbolic metric, (ii) \(N\) admits a Riemannian metric \(h\) with sectional curvature in \([-1-\varepsilon,-1+\varepsilon]\) for which the Ricci flow does not converge in the \(C^2\)-topology to a negatively curved Einstein metric.