Weakly PIC1 manifolds with maximal volume growth

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Abstract: In this article we use Ricci flow to show that complete PIC1 manifolds with maximal volume growth are diffeomorphic to mathbbRn. One of the key ingredients is local estimates of curvature lower bounds on an initial time interval of the Ricci flow. As another application of these estimates we obtain pseudolocality type results related to the PIC1 condition.


A Riemannian manifold \((M^m,g)\) is said to be weakly PIC1 if its product with \(\mathbb R\) has nonnegative isotropic curvature, c.f. [\textit{M. J. Micallef} and \textit{J. D. Moore}, Ann. Math. (2) 127, No. 1, 199--227 (1988; Zbl 0661.53027)]. The main result of the paper states that if a weakly PIC1 manifold of dimension \(m\geq 4\) has maximal volume growth then its topology is trivial. \textbf{Theorem.} Let \((M^m, g)\) be a complete weakly PIC1 Riemannian manifold with dimension \(m\geq 4\). If \((M^m, g)\) has maximal volume growth, i.e., \(\operatorname{Vol} B(r)\geq vr^m\) for some \(v > 0\) and \(\forall r > 0\), then \(M^m\) is diffeomorphic to \(\mathbb R^m\). The proof is based on the use of specific methods of the Ricci flow theory. Particularly, the preservation under the Ricci flow of certain nonnegative curvature conditions including weakly PIC1 is discussed.











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