{"title":"On Ricci flows with closed and smooth tangent flows","authors":"Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma, Yongjia Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02778-6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we consider Ricci flows admitting closed and smooth tangent flows in the sense of Bamler (Structure theory of non-collapsed limits of Ricci flows, 2020. arXiv:2009.03243). The tangent flow in question can be either a tangent flow at infinity for an ancient Ricci flow, or a tangent flow at a singular point for a Ricci flow developing a finite-time singularity. Among other things, we prove: (1) that in these cases the tangent flow must be unique, (2) that if a Ricci flow with finite-time singularity has a closed singularity model, then the singularity is of Type I and the singularity model is the tangent flow at the singular point; this answers a question proposed in Chow et al. (The Ricci flow: techniques and applications. Part III. Geometric-analytic aspects. Mathematical surveys and monographs, vol 163. AMS, Providence, 2010), (3) a dichotomy theorem that characterizes ancient Ricci flows admitting a closed and smooth backward sequential limit.\n</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"11 12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02778-6","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this paper, we consider Ricci flows admitting closed and smooth tangent flows in the sense of Bamler (Structure theory of non-collapsed limits of Ricci flows, 2020. arXiv:2009.03243). The tangent flow in question can be either a tangent flow at infinity for an ancient Ricci flow, or a tangent flow at a singular point for a Ricci flow developing a finite-time singularity. Among other things, we prove: (1) that in these cases the tangent flow must be unique, (2) that if a Ricci flow with finite-time singularity has a closed singularity model, then the singularity is of Type I and the singularity model is the tangent flow at the singular point; this answers a question proposed in Chow et al. (The Ricci flow: techniques and applications. Part III. Geometric-analytic aspects. Mathematical surveys and monographs, vol 163. AMS, Providence, 2010), (3) a dichotomy theorem that characterizes ancient Ricci flows admitting a closed and smooth backward sequential limit.
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