Ancient solutions to the Ricci flow in higher dimensions

DOI10.4310/CAG.2022.V30.N9.A3MaRDI QIDQ6136043zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Xiaolong Li, Yongjia Zhang

Publication date 28 August 2023

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04156

zbMATH Keywords

ancient solutionsBryant solitonPerelman's structure theoremRicci flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ricci flows (53E20)

Abstract: In this paper, we study $kappa$-noncollapsed ancient solutions to the Ricci flow with nonnegative curvature operator in higher dimensions. We impose one further assumption: one of the asymptotic shrinking gradient Ricci solitons is the standard cylinder $mathbb{S}^{n-1}imesmathbbR$. By making use of the properties of such ancient solutions, we generalize part one of Brendle cite{brendle2018ancient} to higher dimensions, that is, every noncompact $kappa$-noncollapsed rotationally symmetric ancient solution to the Ricci flow with bounded positive curvature operator must be the Bryant soliton.

Review text

It is well known that the Ricci flow of an arbitrary metric on a compact manifold will generally develop singularities. The ancient solutions play a fundamental role in understanding the formation of singularities as they arise naturally in the blow-up limits. The paper considers nonflat ancient solutions to a Ricci flow \((M^n, g(t))\) for \(t\in (-\infty , 0]\), with bounded nonnegative curvature operator and \(n\geq 4\). A basic hypothesis is the Assumption A: an asymptotic (in the sense of Perelman) shrinking gradient Ricci soliton is the standard cylinder \(\mathbb{S}^{n-1}\times \mathbb{R}\). Section 3 deals with the proof for the main results, namely Theorems 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4. The final section deals with the proof of Theorem 1.5 by using an extension of the barrier construction.

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