A gradient flow of isometric G₂-structures
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DOI10.1007/S12220-019-00327-8zbMATH Open1478.53149arXiv1904.10068OpenAlexW2996259731MaRDI QIDQ2659486FDOQ2659486
Authors: Shubham Dwivedi, Panagiotis Gianniotis, Spiro Karigiannis 
Publication date: 26 March 2021
Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We study a flow of structures which induce the same Riemannian metric which is the negative gradient flow of an energy functional. We prove Shi-type estimates for the torsion tensor along the flow. We show that at a finite-time singularity the torsion must blow-up, so the flow exists as long as the torsion remains bounded. We prove a Cheeger-Gromov type compactness theorem for the flow. We describe an Uhlenbeck-type trick which together with a modification of the connection gives a nice diffusion-reaction equation for the torsion along the flow. We define a quantity for any solution of the flow and prove that it is almost monotonic along the flow. Inspired by the work of Colding-Minicozzi on the mean curvature flow, we define an entropy functional and after proving an -regularity theorem, we show that low entropy initial data lead to solutions of the flow which exist for all time and converge smoothly to a structure with divergence free torsion. We also study the finite-time singularities and show that at the singular time the flow converges to a smooth structure outside a closed set of finite 5-dimensional Hausdorff measure. Finally, we prove that if the singularity is of Type-I then a sequence of blow-ups of a solution has a subsequence which converges to a shrinking soliton for the flow.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10068
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