The Ricci flow under almost non-negative curvature conditions
The Ricci flow under almost non-negative curvature conditions
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DOI:
10.1007/s00222-019-00864-7
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发表时间:
2017-07
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
R. Bamler;Esther Cabezas-Rivas;Burkhard Wilking
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作者:
R. Bamler;Esther Cabezas-Rivas;Burkhard Wilking
We generalize most of the known Ricci flow invariant non-negative curvature conditions to less restrictive negative bounds that remain sufficiently controlled for a short time. As an illustration of the contents of the paper, we prove that metrics whose curvature operator has eigenvalues greater thancan be evolved by the Ricci flow for some uniform time such that the eigenvalues of the curvature operator remain greater than. Here the time of existence and the constantConly depend on the dimension and the degree of non-collapsedness. We obtain similar generalizations for other invariant curvature conditions, including positive biholomorphic curvature in the Kähler case. We also get a local version of the main theorem. As an application of our almost preservation results we deduce a variety of gap and smoothing results of independent interest, including a classification for non-collapsed manifolds with almost non-negative curvature operator and a smoothing result for singular spaces coming from sequences of manifolds with lower curvature bounds. We also obtain a short-time existence result for the Ricci flow on open manifolds with almost non-negative curvature (without requiring upper curvature bounds).