陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「285G, Lecture 7: Rescaling of Ricci flows and κ-noncollapsing」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

We now set aside our discussion of the finite time extinction results for Ricci flow with surgery (Theorem 4 from Lecture 2 ), and turn instead to the main portion of Perelman’s argument, which is to establish the global existence result for Ricci flow with surgery (Theorem 2 from Lecture 2 ), as well as the discreteness of the surgery times (Theorem 3 from Lecture 2 ).

As mentioned in Lecture 1 , local existence of the Ricci flow is a fairly standard application of nonlinear parabolic theory, once one uses de Turck’s trick to transform Ricci flow into an explicitly parabolic equation. The trouble is, of course, that Ricci flow can and does develop singularities (indeed, we have just spent several lectures showing that singularities must inevitably develop when certain topological hypotheses (e.g. simple connectedness) or geometric hypothese

已知结果和反例

In order to analyse these singularities, Hamilton and then Perelman employed the standard nonlinear PDE technique of “blowing up” the singularity using the scaling symmetry, and then exploiting as much “compactness” as is available in order to extract an “asymptotic profile” of that singularity from a sequence of such blowups, which had better properties than the original Ricci flow. [The PDE notion of a blowing up a solution around a singularity, by the way, is vaguely analo

However, in order to carry out this program it is necessary to obtain geometric control on the Ricci flow which does not deteriorate when one blows up the solution; in the jargon of nonlinear PDE, we need to obtain bounds on some quantity which is both coercive (it bounds the geometry) and either critical (it is essentially invariant under rescaling) or subcritical (it becomes more powerful when one blows up the solution) with respect to the scaling symmetry. The discovery of

证明或构造的主线

To be a more precise, recall from Lecture 1 that the Ricci flow equation , in any spatial dimension d, has two basic symmetries (besides the geometric symmetry of diffeomorphism invariance); it has the obvious time-translation symmetry (keeping the manifold M fixed), but it also has the scaling symmetry

for any (again keeping M fixed as a topological manifold). When applied with , this scaling shrinks all lengths on the manifold M by a factor (recall that the length of a tangent vector v is given by the square root of ), and also speeds up the flow of time by a factor ; conversely, when applied with , the scaling expands all lengths by a factor , and slows down the flow of time by .

阅读时建议盯住的点

Suppose now that one has a Ricci flow which becomes singular at some time T > 0. To analyse the behaviour of the flow as one approaches the singular time T, one picks a sequence of times approaching T from below, a sequence of marked points on the manifold, and a sequence of length scales which go to zero as . One then considers the blown up Ricci flows , where is equal to M as a topological manifold (with as a marked point or “origin” O), and is the flow of metrics given by

Thus the flow represents a renormalised flow in which the time has been redesignated as the temporal origin 0, the point has been redesignated as the spatial origin O, and the length scale has been redesignated as the unit length scale (and the time scale has been redesignated as the unit time scale). Thus the behaviour of the rescaled flow at unit scales of space and time around the spacetime origin (thus and ) correspond to the behaviour of the original flow at spatial scal

值得单独记下的条目

• Any length-type quantity, e.g. the diameter of the manifold, or the injectivity radius , has dimension 1 and is thus supercritical.
• The injectivity radius at p is the supremum of all radii r such that is injective on .
• The conjugate radius at p is the supremum of all radii r such that is an immersion on .
• Away from the origin, we have and .
• Away from the origin, is the gradient of r with respect to the metric g, thus .
• The injectivity radius of p is at least .
• There exists a non-trivial geodesic starting and ending at p of length less than .
• (Bounded normalised curvature) We have for all the spacetime cylinder (in particular, we assume that the lifespan of the Ricci flow includes the time interval );

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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