Generalized L-geodesic and monotonicity of the generalized reduced volume in the Ricci flow

DOI10.1215/KJM/1260975038MaRDI QIDQ965070zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shu-Yu Hsu

Publication date 21 April 2010

Published in Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608197, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.kjm/1260975038

zbMATH Keywords

reduced distancereduced volumeRicci flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calculus on manifolds; nonlinear operators (58C99) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

Abstract: Suppose $M$ is a complete n-dimensional manifold, $nge2$, with a metric $$ that evolves by the Ricci flow $$ in $Mimes(0,T)$. For any $0<p<1$, $(p_0,t_0)inMimes(0,T)$, $qinM$, we define the $Cal{L}_p$-length between $p_0$ and $q$, $Cal{L}_p$-geodesic, the generalized reduced distance $l_p$ and the generalized reduced volume $widetilde{V}_p(au)$, $au=t_0-t$, corresponding to the $Cal{L}_p$-geodesic at the point $p_0$ at time $t_0$. Under the condition $$ on $Mimes(0,t_0)$ for some constant $c_1>0$, we will prove the existence of a $Cal{L}_p$-geodesic which minimize the $$-length between $p_0$ and $q$ for any $$. This result for the case $p=1/2$ is conjectured and used many times but no proof of it was given in Perelman's papers on Ricci flow. My result is new and answers in affirmative the existence of such $CalL$-geodesic minimizer for the $L_p(q,au)$-length which is crucial to the proof of many results in Perelman's papers on Ricci flow. We also obtain many other properties of the generalized $Cal{L}_p$-geodesic and generalized reduced volume.

Review text

This paper studies the Ricci flow on a complete manifold. Generalizing work of G. Perelman, the author defines a family of ``reduced distances \(\mathcal{L}_p\) and corresponding ``reduced volumes. If the evolving metric has a lower bound on the Ricci curvature then the author proves the existence of an \(\mathcal{L}_p\)-minimizing geodesic connecting any two points. Further results related to the monotonicity of the reduced volume are given.

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