Curvature bounds by isoperimetric comparison for normalized Ricci flow on the two-sphere (Q607793)

The Ricci flow is a nonlinear parabolic evolution for Riemannian metrics which has been applied widely and with great effect for example in the work of Perel'man proving Poincaré conjectures. In this paper, the authors prove a comparison theorem for the isoperimetric profiles of the solutions of the normalized Ricci flow on two-sphere: If the isoperimetric profile of the initial metric is greater than of some positively curved axisymmetric metric, then the inequality remains true for the isoperimetric profiles of the evolved metrics. Applying Rosenau solution (the explicit symmetric solution for normalized Ricci flow), the authors obtain sharp time-dependent curvature bounds for arbitrary solutions of the normalized Ricci flow on two-sphere. Moreover the bounds that are obtained attained exactly on the Rosenau solution.