Ancient solutions to the Ricci flow in dimension 3

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Abstract: It is known from work of Perelman that any finite-time singularity of the Ricci flow on a compact three-manifold is modeled on an ancient kappa-solution. We prove that the every noncompact ancient kappa-solution in dimension 3 is isometric to either the shrinking cylinders (or a quotient thereof), or the Bryant soliton.


Ancient \(\kappa\)-solutions are the ancient solutions to the Ricci flow, which are complete, non-flat, \(\kappa\)-non-collapsed and have bounded and non-negative curvature. The purpose of this paper is to give a classification of all non-compact ancient \(\kappa\)-solution in dimension \(3\). In particular, the author proves that a \(3\)-dimensional non-compact ancient \(\kappa\)-solutions \((M,g(t))\) is isometric to either a family of shrinking cylinders (or a quotient thereof ) or to the Bryant soliton.




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