A concentration-collapse decomposition for L^2 flow singularities

DOI10.1002/CPA.21557zbMATH Open1354.53077arXiv1311.0961OpenAlexW2963135095MaRDI QIDQ3467591FDOQ3467591

Authors: Jeffrey Streets 

Publication date: 3 February 2016

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We exhibit a concentration-collapse decomposition of singularities of fourth order curvature flows, including the $L^2$ curvature flow and Calabi flow, in dimensions $nleq4$. The proof requires the development of several new a priori estimates. First, we develop a smoothing result for initial metrics with small energy and a volume growth lower bound, in the vein of Perelman's pseudolocality result. Next, we generalize our technique from prior work to exhibit local smoothing estimates for the $L^2$ flow in the presence of a curvature-related bound. A final key ingredient is a new local $epsilon$-regularity result for $L^2$-critical metrics with possibly nonconstant scalar curvature. Applications of these results include new compactness and diffeomorphism-finiteness theorems for smooth compact four-manifolds satisfying the necessary and effectively minimal hypotheses of $L^2$ curvature pinching and a volume noncollapsing condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0961

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zbMATH Keywords

gradient flowlong-time existencefinite-time singularitiesRiemannain curvature

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