Ricci flow and nonnegativity of curvature

Details Ricci flow and nonnegativity of curvature Ricci flow and nonnegativity of curvature

2003-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/math/0305246v1

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Differential Geometry

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In this paper, we prove a general maximum principle for the time dependent Lichnerowicz heat equation on symmetric tensors coupled with the Ricci flow on complete Riemannian manifolds. As an application we construct complete manifolds with bounded nonnegative sectional curvature of dimension greater than or equal to four such that the Ricci flow does not preserve the nonnegativity of the sectional curvature, even though the nonnegativity of the sectional curvature was proved to be preserved by Hamilton in dimension three. The example is the first of this type. This fact is proved through a general splitting theorem on the complete family of metrics with nonnegative sectional curvature, deformed by the Ricci flow.

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