Ricci-DeTurck flow of almost continuous $L^2$-metrics, and metrics with distributional scalar curvature bounded from below

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Autori principali: Litzinger, Florian, Simon, Miles
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author Litzinger, Florian
Simon, Miles
author_facet Litzinger, Florian
Simon, Miles
contents We consider Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g_0)$, $(M^n,h)$, where $(M^n,h)$ is smooth, complete, with curvature bounded in absolute value by $K_0 < \infty$, and $(1-\varepsilon_0(n)) h \leq g_0 \leq (1+\varepsilon_0(n)) h$ for some small $\varepsilon_0(n)>0$. It was shown by Simon (2002) that a Ricci-DeTurck flow solution $g(t)_{t \in (0,T)}$ related to $g_0$ exists for some $T=T(n,K_0)>0$. If $g_0 \in L^2_{\mathrm{loc}}$ or $g_0 \in W^{1,2+2σ}_{\mathrm{loc}}$, $σ\in (0,\frac{1}{4})$, respectively, we show that $g(t) \to g_0$ in the $L^2_{\mathrm{loc}}$- or $W^{1,2+σ}_{\mathrm{loc}}$-sense, respectively. If $M$ is closed, $g_0 \in W^{1,2+σ}(M)$ for some $σ>0$, and the distributional scalar curvature of Lee-LeFloch (2015) is not less than $b \in \mathbb{R}$, then we show that $g(t)$ has scalar curvature not less than $b$ in the smooth sense for all $t>0$.
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spellingShingle Ricci-DeTurck flow of almost continuous $L^2$-metrics, and metrics with distributional scalar curvature bounded from below
Litzinger, Florian
Simon, Miles
Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
53E20 (Primary) 47J35, 35K55 (Secondary)
We consider Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g_0)$, $(M^n,h)$, where $(M^n,h)$ is smooth, complete, with curvature bounded in absolute value by $K_0 < \infty$, and $(1-\varepsilon_0(n)) h \leq g_0 \leq (1+\varepsilon_0(n)) h$ for some small $\varepsilon_0(n)>0$. It was shown by Simon (2002) that a Ricci-DeTurck flow solution $g(t)_{t \in (0,T)}$ related to $g_0$ exists for some $T=T(n,K_0)>0$. If $g_0 \in L^2_{\mathrm{loc}}$ or $g_0 \in W^{1,2+2σ}_{\mathrm{loc}}$, $σ\in (0,\frac{1}{4})$, respectively, we show that $g(t) \to g_0$ in the $L^2_{\mathrm{loc}}$- or $W^{1,2+σ}_{\mathrm{loc}}$-sense, respectively. If $M$ is closed, $g_0 \in W^{1,2+σ}(M)$ for some $σ>0$, and the distributional scalar curvature of Lee-LeFloch (2015) is not less than $b \in \mathbb{R}$, then we show that $g(t)$ has scalar curvature not less than $b$ in the smooth sense for all $t>0$.
title Ricci-DeTurck flow of almost continuous $L^2$-metrics, and metrics with distributional scalar curvature bounded from below
topic Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
53E20 (Primary) 47J35, 35K55 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23234