Ricci flow with surgery in higher dimensions

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2018.187.1.6MaRDI QIDQ1698035zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simon Brendle

Publication date 21 February 2018

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04990

zbMATH Keywords

curvature pinchingRicci flowsingularity formation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: We present a new curvature condition which is preserved by the Ricci flow in higher dimensions. For initial metrics satisfying this condition, we establish a higher dimensional version of Hamilton's neck-like curvature pinching estimate. Using this estimate, we are able to prove a version of Perelman's Canonical Neighborhood Theorem in higher dimensions. This makes it possible to extend the flow beyond singularities by a surgery procedure in the spirit of Hamilton and Perelman. As a corollary, we obtain a classification of all diffeomorphism types of such manifolds in terms of a connected sum decomposition. In particular, the underlying manifold cannot be an exotic sphere. Our result is sharp in many interesting situations. For example, the curvature tensors of $mathbb{CP}^{n/2}$, $mathbb{HP}^{n/4}$, $S^{n-k}imes{S}^k$ ($2leqkleqn-2$), $S^{n-2}imesmathbb{H}^2$, $S^{n-2}imesmathbb{R}^2$ all lie on the boundary of our curvature cone. Another borderline case is the pseudo-cylinder: this is a rotationally symmetric hypersurface which is weakly, but not strictly, two-convex. Finally, the curvature tensor of $S^{n-1}imesmathbbR$ lies in the interior of our curvature cone.

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