Paper · Aug 26, 2026
Positive -bi-Ricci curvature and Mean curvature flow with surgery in hyperbolic space
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Abstract
Let and . We prove that every smooth closed connected immersed hypersurface in hyperbolic space whose induced metric has positive -bi-Ricci curvature admits a mean curvature flow with surgery which has only finitely many surgery times and terminates. In the range compatible with cylindrical necks, the key ingredients are a preserved quantitative spectral pinching condition, which converts the intrinsic hypothesis into uniform two-convexity, and cylindrical and derivative estimates that remain valid across the hyperbolic standard neck replacement. At the endpoint , , positive -bi-Ricci curvature is positive Ricci curvature and forces strict convexity, so the ordinary mean curvature flow converges to a round point. Consequently, the underlying manifold is diffeomorphic to a sphere or to a finite connected sum of copies of . If the initial hypersurface is embedded and bounds a compact domain, that domain is a one-handlebody, namely a ball with finitely many one-handles attached.
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The gluing construction in detail: the profile function, preservation of the Hamilton–Ivey pinching, closeness to the standard solution, and the definition of Ricci flow with surgery as a space-time (Morgan–Tian chapters 13–15).
- 11B.7Hamilton’s Program in 2002
What was proved, what was missing, and where Perelman came in.
- 12B.5The Canonical Neighbourhood Theorem
Every high-curvature point looks like a neck or a cap.