A gradient flow of isometric G₂-structures
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entropygradient flowgeometric flows\(\text{G}_2\) structuresisometric \(\text{G}_2\) structurestype-I singularities
Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60) Geometric evolution equations (53E99)
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.
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