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Title: Long-time Ricci flow existence and topological rigidity from manifolds with pinched scale-invariant integral curvature

Abstract: We prove long-time existence of the Ricci flow starting from complete manifolds with bounded curvature and scale-invariant integral curvature sufficiently pinched with respect to the inverse of its Sobolev constant. Moreover, if the curvature is sub-critical $L^p$ integrable, this flow converges locally smoothly to a limiting metric $g(\infty)$ on $M$ with $(M,g(\infty))$ isometric to the standard flat $\mathbb{R}^n$, which implies topological rigidity of $M$. This generalizes work of Chen, who proved analogous results for asymptotically flat manifolds. We also prove a long-time Ricci flow existence (and likewise topological rigidity) result for unbounded curvature initial data, assuming the initial data is a locally smooth limit of bounded curvature manifolds as described above.
Comments: 27 pages
Subjects: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
MSC classes: 53E20
Cite as: arXiv:2403.02564 [math.DG]
  (or arXiv:2403.02564v1 [math.DG] for this version)

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From: Adam Martens [view email]
[v1] Tue, 5 Mar 2024 00:39:34 GMT (27kb)

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