On the regularity of Ricci flows coming out of metric spaces

  • Alix Deruelle

    Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, France
  • Felix Schulze

    University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
  • Miles Simon

    University of Magdeburg, Germany
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Abstract

We consider smooth, possibly incomplete, -dimensional Ricci flows with and for all coming out of metric spaces in the sense that as in the pointed Gromov–Hausdorff sense. If for all and can be isometrically and compactly embedded in a smooth -dimensional Riemannian manifold , then we show using the Ricci-harmonic map heat flow that there is a corresponding smooth solution to the -Ricci–DeTurck flow on a Euclidean ball , for some small , and smoothly as . We further show that this implies that the original solution can be extended locally to a smooth solution defined up to time zero, in view of the method of Hamilton.

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Alix Deruelle, Felix Schulze, Miles Simon, On the regularity of Ricci flows coming out of metric spaces. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 24 (2022), no. 7, pp. 2233–2277

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/1138