A positive lower bound for the scalar curvature of non-flat Ricci shrinkers

Let n4n\geq 4 be a positive integer, and let (M,p,g,f)(M,p,g,f) be a Ricci shrinker. Denote its scalar curvature by RR, and write supxMR(x)\sup_{x\in M}R(x) for its supremum. Uniform scalar-curvature lower-bound conjecture. There exists a constant ϵ=ϵ(n)>0\epsilon=\epsilon(n)>0 such that, for every non-flat Ricci shrinker (M,p,g,f)(M,p,g,f),

supxMR(x)ϵ.\sup_{x\in M}R(x)\geq\epsilon.

This conjecture asserts a dimension-dependent gap away from zero for the maximum scalar curvature of non-flat Ricci shrinkers. The supplied text gives no resolution.

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Yu Li and Bing Wang, “The Rigidity of Ricci shrinkers of dimension four”, arXiv:1701.01989 (2017).

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