A long-time Ricci flow with Ric ≥ -ψ/t and sufficiently large injectivity radius forces the manifold to be diffeomorphic to R^n, improving dimension-4 small-curvature-concentration results.
Long-time Ricci flow existence and topological rigidity from manifolds with pinched scale-invariant integral curvature
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We prove long-time existence of the Ricci flow starting from complete manifolds with bounded curvature and scale-invariant integral curvature sufficiently pinched with respect to the inverse of its Sobolev constant. Moreover, if the curvature is sub-critical $L^p$-integrable, this flow converges locally smoothly to a limiting metric $g(\infty)$ on $M$ with $(M,g(\infty))$ isometric to the standard flat $\mathbb{R}^n$, which implies topological rigidity of $M$. This generalizes work of Chen \cite{ChenEric}, who proved analogous results for asymptotically flat manifolds. We also prove a long-time Ricci flow existence (and likewise topological rigidity) result for unbounded curvature initial data, assuming the initial data is a locally smooth limit of bounded curvature manifolds as described above.
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A note on a diffeomorphism criterion via long-time Ricci flow
A long-time Ricci flow with Ric ≥ -ψ/t and sufficiently large injectivity radius forces the manifold to be diffeomorphic to R^n, improving dimension-4 small-curvature-concentration results.