Paper · Oct 21, 2023

Local smooth convergence of -limit flows

Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma, Yongjia Zhang

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The metric flow is introduced and extensively studied by Bamler [Bam20b, Bam20c], especially as an -limit of a sequence of smooth Ricci flows with uniformly bounded Nash entropy, in which case each regular point on the limit is a point of smooth convergence. In this note, we shall consider the -convergence of a sequence of -limit flows, and, like Bamler, show that each regular point on the limit is also a point of smooth convergence. The main result will be applied in a forthcoming work of the authors [CMZ23].

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