Hamilton's Yamabe flow convergence conjecture
Hamilton's Yamabe flow convergence conjecture
Let be a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension , and let be the unique solution of the Yamabe flow with initial metric . A metric has constant scalar curvature when its scalar curvature is constant on .
Hamilton's conjecture. The metric converges to a metric of constant scalar curvature as .
Hamilton's conjecture concerns the long-time asymptotics of the Yamabe flow after global existence has been established. The source attributes the proposal to Hamilton and does not provide evidence of a resolution.
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Primary source
Paul M. N. Feehan, “Global existence and convergence of solutions to gradient systems and applications to Yang-Mills gradient flow”, arXiv:1409.1525 (2016).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2014). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1104.4086, arXiv:1010.4960.
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