Local curvature estimates for the Laplacian flow

Yi Li

Paper · May 16, 2018

Local curvature estimates for the Laplacian flow

Yi Li

math.DGarXiv:1805.06231v3

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In this paper we give local curvature estimates for the Laplacian flow on closed G_2-structures under the condition that the Ricci curvature is bounded along the flow. The main ingredient consists of the idea of Kotschwar-Munteanu-Wang who gave local curvature estimates for the Ricci flow on complete manifolds and then provided a new elementary proof of Sesum's result, and the particular structure of the Laplacian flow on closed G_2-structures. As an immediate consequence, this estimates give a new proof of Lotay-Wei's result which is an analogue of Sesum's theorem. The second result is about an interesting evolution equation for the scalar curvature of the Laplacian flow of closed G_2-structures. Roughly speaking, we can prove that the time derivative of the scalar curvature R_t is equal to the Laplacian of R_t, plus an extra term which can be written as the difference of two nonnegative quantities.

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Submitted: May 16, 2018
Last revised: May 28, 2018 (v3)
Subjects: math.DG, math.AP

Comments: Correct the statement of Theorem 1.3, where we cannot extend it to complete and noncompact setting. Thus, in this paper we give alternative proof of Lotay-Wei's result. Thanks Yao and Kotschwar

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