Second Ricci flow on noncompact Hermitian manifolds

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Abstract: In this work, we first establish short time existence and Shi's type estimate of second Ricci flow on complete noncompact Hermitian manifolds. As an application, we use the second Ricci flow to discuss the existence of Kaehler-Einstein metric on complete noncompact Hermitian manifolds.


The current paper studies the second Ricci flows, a specialization of a type of flows first considered in [\textit{J. Streets} and \textit{G. Tian}, J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 13, No. 3, 601--634 (2011; Zbl 1214.53055)]. In the following we suppose that \((M, g_0)\) is a complete noncompact Hermitian manifold and \(T\) denotes the torsion tensor of \(g_0\). The author obtains the following result of short-time existence (Theorem 1.1): \textbf{Theorem I.} If \(\sup_M|\mathrm{Rm}|+|T|^2+|\nabla T|<\infty, \) then the following flow has a short-time solution \(g=g(t)\) on \(M\times [0,\tau]\): \[ \frac{\partial}{\partial t}g = - S_g\ \text{ with }\ g(0)=g_0, \] where \(S_g = S_{i\bar j}\) is the second Ricci curvature with respect to the Chern connection of \(g\), i.e., \[ S_{i\bar j}= g^{k\bar l}\left(-\frac{\partial^2g_{k\bar l}}{\partial z^i\partial \bar z^j}+g^{r\bar s}\frac{\partial g_{k\bar s}}{\partial z^i}\frac{\partial g_{r\bar l}}{\partial \bar z^j}\right). \] Moreover, \(g(t)\) has bounded Chern curvature and torsion on \([0,\tau]\). The above result is then applied to obtain the following result about the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics (part of Theorem 1.3): \textbf{Theorem II.} \(M\) admits a complete Kähler-Einstein metric \(g_{KE}=-\mathrm{Ric}(g_KE)\) with bounded curvature if for \((M,g_0)\) \begin{itemize} \item[(i)] the Riemannian curvature, the Chern curvature and the torsion are bounded, \item[(ii)] the Chern bisectional curvature is bounded, and \item[(iii)] the first Ricci curvature is quasinegative and is uniformly negative outside a compact set. \end{itemize} One aspect in which this result is different from various early results on the existence of complete Kähler-Einstein metrics is that \(M\) is not assumed to have a Kähler metric in advance. A brief overview of the proof of Theorem I is as follows. There is a constant \(\varepsilon_n>0\) (\(n=\dim\, M\)) validating the following: \begin{itemize} \item[(a)] (Section 5) Under certain assumption of bounded geometry on \((M,g_0)\) a solution \(g(t)\) exists on \([0, \tau(g_0,n)]\) for some \(\tau(g_0,n)>0\) and one has \[ (1+\varepsilon_n)^{-1}g_0 \leqslant g(t) \leqslant (1+\varepsilon_n)g_0.\tag{1} \] \item[(b)] (Section 4) If (1) holds on \(B_{g_0}(p,r+\delta)\times[0,\tau]\) for some \(p\in M\), \(r>0\), and \(\delta>0\), then one may obtain a priori estimates of \[ |\mathrm{Rm}|+|\nabla T|+|\nabla_{g_0}g(t)|\ \text{ and }\ |\mathrm{Rm}|+|\nabla T|+|\nabla_{g_0}g(t)|\ \text{ on }\ B_{g_0}(p,r+\delta)\times[0,\tau] \] and a priori estimates of \[ |\nabla^m\mathrm{Rm}|+|\nabla^m T|\ \text{ on }\ B_{g_0}(p,r+(m+1)^{-1}\delta)\times[0,\tau]\quad (m\in\mathbf N). \] \end{itemize} These estimates rely on expressions in Section 3 of \[ \partial_t g(t),\ (\partial_t-\Delta)\mathrm{tr}_{g(t)}g_0, \text{ and } (\partial_t-\Delta)|\nabla^{g(t)}-\nabla^{g_0}|^2_{g(t)}, \] as well as that of the time derivatives of the Chern-Ricci curvature and the higher derivatives of \(\mathrm{Rm}\) and \(T\). Following the idea of [\textit{M.-C. Lee} and \textit{L.-F. Tam}, J. Differ. Geom. 115, No. 3, 529--564 (2020; Zbl 1469.32017)], in Section 6, by summing up (a) and (b) yields a generalization of Theorem I by reduction to the case with bounded geometry. As for Theorem II, for a complete solution \(g(t)\) on \([0,\tau]\) with \(|\mathrm{Rm}|+|T|^2\) bounded on \(M\times [0,\tau]\), it is shown in Section 7 that one has \(\mathrm{Ric}(g(t))<0\) on \((0,\tau']\) for some \(\tau'>0\) if \(g_0\) has quasinegative Chern-Ricci curvature. In particular, \(M\) admits a possibly incomplete Kähler metric. This is used along with some estimates to show that, for some \(\tau>0\), \(-\mathrm{Ric}(g(\tau))\) is a complete Kähler metric uniformly equivalent to \(g(\tau)\), with certain estimates on \(|\nabla^m_{g(\tau)}h|\). This enables a usage of Theorem 5.1 of [\textit{J. Lott} and \textit{Z. Zhang}, Duke Math. J. 156, No. 1, 87--123 (2011; Zbl 1248.53050)] to conclude a complete Kähler-Einstein metric on \(M\).



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