-regularity for shrinking Ricci solitons and Ricci flows

DOI10.1007/S00039-017-0420-0zbMATH Open1384.53045arXiv1707.05511OpenAlexW2963784988MaRDI QIDQ1682508FDOQ1682508

Authors: Huabin Ge, Wen Shuai Jiang 

Publication date: 30 November 2017

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In [Cheeger-Tian 2005], Cheeger-Tian proved an $epsilon$-regularity theorem for $4$-dimensional Einstein manifolds without volume assumption. They conjectured that similar results should hold for critical metrics with constant scalar curvature, shrinking Ricci solitons, Ricci flows in $4$-dimensional manifolds and higher dimensional Einstein manifolds. In this paper we consider all these problems. First, we construct counterexamples to the conjecture for $4$-dimensional critical metrics and counterexamples to the conjecture for higher dimensional Einstein manifolds. For $4$-dimensional shrinking Ricci solitons, we prove an $epsilon$-regularity theorem which confirms Cheeger-Tian's conjecture with a universal constant $epsilon$. For Ricci flow, we reduce Cheeger-Tian's $epsilon$-regularity conjecture to a backward Pseudolocality estimate. By proving a global backward Pseudolocality theorem, we can prove a global $epsilon$-regularity theorem which partially confirms Cheeger-Tian's conjecture for Ricci flow. Furthermore, as a consequence of the $epsilon$-regularity, we can show by using the structure theorem of Naber-Tian cite{NaTi} that a collapsed limit of shrinking Ricci solitons with bounded $L^2$ curvature has a smooth Riemannian orbifold structure away from a finite number of points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.05511

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zbMATH Keywords

Einstein manifoldscritical metricsshrinking Ricci solitonsRicci flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Integration on manifolds; measures on manifolds (58C35)

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