Refined folklore conjecture on Ricci-flow singularity models

A gradient shrinking soliton is a Riemannian manifold (M,g)(M,g) with a potential function ff satisfying

Ric+2f12g=0.\operatorname{Ric}+\nabla^2f-\frac12g=0.

A soliton may be degenerate, and its singular set may have codimension at least 44. Refined folklore conjecture. For any Ricci flow, “most” singularity models are gradient shrinking solitons that may be degenerate and may have a singular set of codimension 4\geq4. This refines the preceding informal conjecture in response to four-dimensional examples whose blow-up models can be singular or degenerate. No resolution is supplied in the source.

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Richard H Bamler, “Recent developments in Ricci flows”, arXiv:2102.12615 (2021).

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