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arxiv: 1205.4143 · v3 · pith:EU3PN7UWnew · submitted 2012-05-18 · 🧮 math.DG

Perelman's Entropy Functional at Type I Singularities of the Ricci Flow

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We study blow-ups around fixed points at Type I singularities of the Ricci flow on closed manifolds using Perelman's W-functional. First, we give an alternative proof of the result obtained by Naber and Enders-M\"{u}ller-Topping that blow-up limits are non-flat gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. Our second and main result relates a limit W-density at a Type I singular point to the entropy of the limit gradient shrinking soliton obtained by blowing-up at this point. In particular, we show that no entropy is lost at infinity during the blow-up process.

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