Ricci flow of almost non-negatively curved three manifolds

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2009.038zbMATH Open1165.53046OpenAlexW2962949259WikidataQ126094123 ScholiaQ126094123MaRDI QIDQ3631301FDOQ3631301

Authors Miles Simon 

Publication date 5 June 2009

Published in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612095

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci curvaturenon-negatively curved metric spaces

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Abstract: In this paper we study the evolution of almost non-negatively curved (possibly singular) three dimensional metric spaces by Ricci flow. The non-negatively curved metric spaces which we consider arise as limits of smooth Riemannian manifolds (M_i,g_i), i in N, whose Ricci curvature is not less than -c^2(i), where c^2(i) goes to zero as i goes to infinity, and whose diameter is bounded by a constant independent of i, and whose volume is bounded from below by a positive constant independent of i. We show for such spaces, that a solution to Ricci flow exists for a short time, and that the solution is smooth for all positive times and that it has non-negative Ricci curvature. This allows us to classify the topological type and the differential structure of the limit manifold (in view of Hamilton's Theorem on closed three manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature).

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