Regularity of Kähler-Ricci flows on Fano manifolds (Q530297)

The normalised Kähler-Ricci flow is \(\frac{\partial g}{\partial t} = g- \mathrm{Ric}(g)\) where \(g\) is a Kähler metric. If on a Fano manifold, the initial metric is in \(2\pi c_1(M)\) then the flow exists globally. The point is to study the limiting behaviour which is conjectured to be a shrinking Kähler-Ricci soliton with mild singularities. Mild in the sense that the singularities have codimension 4 or higher, or in the algebro-geometric sense of the singular set of a normal variety. Theorem 1.6 implies that these two interpretations are equivalent. Thanks to the work of Perelman, it is known that up to a subsequence, the flow converges in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to a length space \(M_{\infty}\). The regularity of this space had been an open question. Previous results proved the regularity based on uniform bounds on some curvature tensors. The main result (Theorem 1.2) of the paper implies the desired regularity assuming an \(L^p\) (where \(p\) is greater than the complex dimension \(n\) of the manifold \(M\)) upper bound on the Ricci tensor. Theorem 1.4 verifies that the \(L^p\) bound holds for \(p=4\) thus implying the main conjecture for \(\dim \leq 3\). Finally, Theorem 1.8 implies that if \(M\) is K-stable and the main regularity conjecture holds, then \(M_{\infty}=M\) and the limiting metric is Kähler-Einstein. This in conjunction with Theorem 1.4 implies, for dimension \(\leq3\), the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture, that K-stability implies the existence of a Kähler-Einstein metric on Fano manifolds.