Ricci flow of almost non-negatively curved three manifolds
Ricci flow of almost non-negatively curved three manifolds
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10.1515/crelle.2009.038
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2006-12
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Miles Simon
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Miles Simon
Abstract In this paper we study the evolution of almost non-negatively curved (possibly singular) three dimensional metric spaces by Ricci flow. The non-negatively curved metric spaces which we consider arise as limits of smooth Riemannian manifolds (Mi, ig), i ∈ ℕ, whose Ricci curvature is bigger than –1/i, and whose diameter is less than d 0 (independent of i) and whose volume is bigger than v 0 > 0 (independent of i). We show for such spaces, that a solution to Ricci flow exists for a short time t ∈ (0, T), that the solution is smooth for t > 0, and has Ricci (g(t)) ≧ 0 and Riem (g(t)) ≧ c/t for t ∈ (0, T) (for some constant c = c(v 0, d 0, n)). This allows us to classify the topological type and the differential structure of the limit manifold (in view of the theorem of Hamilton [J. Diff. Geom. 24: 153–179, 1986] on closed three manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature).