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In this paper we characterize non-collapsed limits of Ricci flows. We show that such limits are smooth away from a set of codimension $geq 4$ in the parabolic sense and that the tangent flows at every point are given by gradient shrinking solitons, possibly with a singular set of codimension $geq 4$. We furthermore obtain a stratification result of the singular set with optimal dimensional bounds, which depend on the symmetries of the tangent flows. Our methods also imply the corresponding quantitative stratification result and the expected $L^p$-curvature bounds. As an application of our theory, we obtain a description of the singularity formation of a Ricci flow at its first singular time and a thick-thin decomposition characterizing the long-time behavior of immortal flows. These results generalize Perelmans results in dimension 3 to higher dimensions. We also obtain a Backwards Pseudolocality Theorem and discuss several other applications.
We develop a compactness theory for super Ricci flows, which lays the foundations for the partial regularity theory in [Bam20b]. Our results imply that any sequence of super Ricci flows of the same dimension that is pointed in an appropriate sense subsequentially converges to a certain type of synthetic flow, called a metric flow. We will study the geometric and analytic properties of this limiting flow, as well as the convergence in detail. We will also see that, under appropriate local curvature bounds, a limit of Ricci flows can be decomposed into a regular and singular part. The regular part can be endowed with a canonical structure of a Ricci flow spacetime and we have smooth convergence on a certain subset of the regular part.
This is a survey on recent developments in Ricci flows.
In this paper we prove convergence and compactness results for Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature and entropy. More specifically, we show that Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature converge smoothly away from a singular set of codimension $geq 4$. We also establish a general form of the Hamilton-Tian Conjecture, which is even true in the Riemannian case. These results are based on a compactness theorem for Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature, which states that any sequence of such Ricci flows converges, after passing to a subsequence, to a metric space that is smooth away from a set of codimension $geq 4$. In the course of the proof, we will also establish $L^{p < 2}$-curvature bounds on time-slices of such flows.
In this paper we prove a compactness result for Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature and entropy. It states that given any sequence of such Ricci flows, we can pass to a subsequence that converges to a metric space which is smooth away from a set of codimension $geq 4$. The result has two main consequences: First, it implies that singularities in Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature have codimension $geq 4$ and, second, it establishes a general form of the Hamilton-Tian Conjecture, which is even true in the Riemannian case. In the course of the proof, we will also establish the following results: $L^{p < 4}$ curvature bounds, integral bounds on the curvature radius, Gromov-Hausdorff closeness of time-slices, an $varepsilon$-regularity theorem for Ricci flows and an improved backwards pseudolocality theorem.
In this article, we study the Ricci flow neckpinch in the context of metric measure spaces. We introduce the notion of a Ricci flow metric measure spacetime and of a weak (refined) super Ricci flow associated to convex cost functions (cost functions which are increasing convex functions of the distance function). Our definition of a weak super Ricci flow is based on the coupled contraction property for suitably defined diffusions on maximal diffusion components. In our main theorem, we show that if a non-degenerate spherical neckpinch can be continued beyond the singular time by a smooth forward evolution then the corresponding Ricci flow metric measure spacetime through the singularity is a weak super Ricci flow for a (and therefore for all) convex cost functions if and only if the single point pinching phenomenon holds at singular times; i.e., if singularities form on a finite number of totally geodesic hypersurfaces of the form ${x} times sphere^n$. We also show the spacetime is a refined weak super Ricci flow if and only if the flow is a smooth Ricci flow with possibly singular final time.