Lower bounds for the scalar curvatures of Ricci flow singularity models

Abstract

Abstract In a series of papers, Bamler [5, 4, 6] further developed the high-dimensional theory of Hamilton’s Ricci flow to include new monotonicity formulas, a completely general compactness theorem, and a long-sought partial regularity theory analogous to Cheeger–Colding theory. In this paper we give an application of his theory to lower bounds for the scalar curvatures of singularity models for Ricci flow. In the case of 4-dimensional non-Ricci-flat steady soliton singularity models, we obtain as a consequence a quadratic decay lower bound for the scalar curvature.