Bach flow of simply connected nilmanifolds

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2023-0032MaRDI QIDQ6151064zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Adam Thompson

Publication date 9 February 2024

Published in advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11456

zbMATH Keywords

geometric flownilmanifoldBach flowBach soliton

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Abstract: The Bach flow is a fourth order geometric flow defined on four manifolds. For a compact manifold, it is a conformally modified gradient flow for the $L^2$-norm of the Weyl curvature. In this paper we study the Bach flow on four-dimensional simply connected nilmanifolds whose Lie algebra is indecomposable. We show that the Bach flow beginning at an arbitrary left invariant metric exists for all positive times and after rescaling converges in the pointed Cheeger-Gromov sense to an expanding Bach soliton which is non-gradient. Combining our results with previous results of Helliwell gives a complete description of the Bach flow on simply connected nilmanifolds.

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