Volume bounds of the Ricci flow on closed manifolds

Abstract: Let

{g (t)}_{t i n [0, T)}

be the solution of the Ricci flow on a closed Riemannian manifold

M^{n}

with

n g e q 3

. Without any assumption, we derive lower volume bounds of the form

{m V o l}_{g (t)} g e q C (T - t)^{f r a c n 2}

, where

C

depends only on

n

,

T

and

g (0)

. In particular, we show that

{ m Vol}_{g(t)} geq e^{ Tlambda-frac{n}{2}} left(frac{4}{(A(lambda-r)+4B)T} ight)^{frac{n}{2}}left(T-t ight)^{frac{n}{2}},

where

r := i n f_{| p h i |_{2}^{2} = 1} i n t_{M} R p h i^{2} d {m v o l}_{g (0)}

,

l a m b d a := i n f_{| p h i |_{2}^{2} = 1} i n t_{M} 4 | a b l a p h i |^{2} + R p h i^{2} d {m v o l}_{g (0)}

and

A, B

are Sobolev constants of

(M, g (0))

. This estimate is sharp in the sense that it is achieved by the unit sphere with scalar curvature

R_{g (0)} = n (n - 1)

and

A = f r a c 4 n (n - 2) o m e g a_{n}^{- f r a c 2 n}

,

B = f r a c n - 1 n - 2 o m e g a_{n}^{- f r a c 2 n}

. On the other hand, if the diameter satisfies

{m d i a m}_{g (t)} l e q c_{1} s q r t T - t

and there exist a point

x_{0} i n M

such that

R (x_{0}, t) l e q c_{2} (T - t)^{- 1}

, then we have

{m V o l}_{g (t)} l e q C (T - t)^{f r a c n 2}

for all

t > f r a c T 2

, where

C

depends only on

c_{1}, c_{2}, n, T

and

g (0)

.

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