Ricci flow of W^2, 2-metrics in four dimensions

DOI10.4171/CMH/553MaRDI QIDQ6058053zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tobias Lamm, Miles Simon

Publication date 26 October 2023

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08541

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci flowrough initial data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) Ricci flows (53E20)

Abstract: In this paper we construct solutions to Ricci DeTurck flow in four dimensions on closed manifolds which are instantaneously smooth but whose initial values $g$ are (possibly) non-smooth Riemannian metrics whose components in smooth coordinates belong to $W^{2,2}$ and satisfy $frac1ahleqgleqah$ for some $1<a<infty$ and some smooth Riemannian metric $h$ on $M$. A Ricci flow related solution is constructed whose initial value is isometric in a weak sense to the initial value of the Ricci DeTurck solution. Results for a related non-compact setting are also presented. Various $L^p$ estimates for Ricci flow, which we require for some of the main results, are also derived. As an application we present a possible definition of scalar curvature $geqk$ for $W^{2,2}$ metrics $g$ on closed four manifolds which are bounded in the $L^{infty}$ sense by $frac1ahleqgleqah$ for some $1<a<infty$ and some smooth Riemannian metric $h$ on $M$.

Review text

The paper studies the existence problem of Ricci-DeTurck flow starting from metrics with rough regularity in dimension four, and the instantaneous smoothing. More precisely, the authors establish the quantitative short-time existence starting from rough metrics which are bi-lipschitz and $W^{2,2}$ metrics with respect to bounded geometry background metrics. As an application, the authors define the notion of scalar curvature lower bound for this class of nonsmooth metrics.

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