Space of Ricci flows. I. (Q2911047)

On a closed manifold \(X^m\), the authors consider the moduli space \(\mathcal{M}(m,c,\sigma,\kappa,E)\) of the Ricci flow solutions \(\{(X^m, g(t)): -1\leq t\leq 1\}\) of \(\frac{d}{dt}g(t))=-\text{Ric}_{g(t)} +c_0g(t)\), with \(|c_0|<c\), under the constraints NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\sup_{X \times [-1,1]}|R|_{g(t)}\leq \sigma,\quad\quad \int_X|Rm|^{m/2}_{g(t)}d\mu_{g(t)}\leq E,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE for all \(t\in [-1, 1]\), on the scalar curvature norm and the Riemannian curvature energy and satisfying a noncollapsing volume ratio condition, NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\frac{\text{Vol}_{g(t)}(B_{g(t)}(x,r))}{r^m}\geq \kappaNEWLINE\]NEWLINE for all \(x\in X\), \(-1\leq t\leq 1\), and \( 0<r\leq 1\). In this setting, there is no need of Ricci tensor control, and the authors derive a volume ratio upper bound and \(\epsilon\)-regularity NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\sup_{B_{g(0)}(p,\rho/2)}|\nabla^k Rm|\leq \frac{C_k}{\rho^{2+k}} \left(\int_{B_{g(0)}(p,\rho)} |Rm|^{m/2}_{g(0)}\right)^{2/m},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE whenever \(\int_{B_{g(0)}(p,\rho} |Rm|^{m/2}_{g(0)}<\epsilon\), by using Shi's estimates of the Ricci flow and bubble analysis, to obtain an energy concentration and a backward pseudolocality property of the Ricci tensor.NEWLINENEWLINEThis leads to a weak compactness theorem: Given a sequence of pointed complete Riemannian manifolds \((X_i,x_i,g_i(t))\in \mathcal{M}(m,c,\sigma,\kappa,E)\), then a subsequence, for \(t=0\), converges to some \((\hat{X},\hat{x},\hat{g})\) in the Cheeger-Gromov topology, where \((\hat{X}, \hat{g})\) is a \(C^0\)-orbifold, that is, smooth in case \(m\) is odd. For every sequence in \(\mathcal{M}(m,c,\sigma,\kappa,E)\), the authors construct the bubble tree structure, and use it to control the isoperimetric constant: Given \(\{(X,g(t))\}\in \mathcal{M}(m,c,\sigma,\kappa,E)\) with \(\mathrm{diam}_{g(0)}(X)<D\), then \(\mathbf{I}(X,g(0))>\iota\) for some positive constant \(\iota>0\) depending on \(D\) and on the parameters of \(\mathcal{M}\).NEWLINENEWLINEThis result and the compactness theorem is applied to the case of Kähler-Ricci flow on Fano surfaces, as well to study the moduli space of gradient shrinking Ricci solutions.