Deriving Perelman's entropy from Colding's monotonic volume

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author Bustamante, Ignacio
Reiris, Martin
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Reiris, Martin
contents In his groundbreaking work from 2002, Perelman introduced two fundamental monotonic quantities: the reduced volume and the entropy. While the reduced volume was motivated by the Bishop-Gromov volume comparison applied to a suitably constructed $N$-space, which becomes Ricci-flat as $N\rightarrow \infty$, Perelman did not provide a corresponding explanation for the origin of the entropy. In this article, we demonstrate that Perelman's entropy emerges as the limit of Colding's monotonic volume for harmonic functions on Ricci-flat manifolds, when appropriately applied to Perelman's $N$-space.
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spellingShingle Deriving Perelman's entropy from Colding's monotonic volume
Bustamante, Ignacio
Reiris, Martin
Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
In his groundbreaking work from 2002, Perelman introduced two fundamental monotonic quantities: the reduced volume and the entropy. While the reduced volume was motivated by the Bishop-Gromov volume comparison applied to a suitably constructed $N$-space, which becomes Ricci-flat as $N\rightarrow \infty$, Perelman did not provide a corresponding explanation for the origin of the entropy. In this article, we demonstrate that Perelman's entropy emerges as the limit of Colding's monotonic volume for harmonic functions on Ricci-flat manifolds, when appropriately applied to Perelman's $N$-space.
title Deriving Perelman's entropy from Colding's monotonic volume
topic Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12949