The conjecture on immortal Ricci flows from quotients of Bryant's soliton

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Let the Bryant steady soliton be quotiented by a subgroup of SU⁡(2)\operatorname{SU}(2), and let a hyperkähler Ricci-flat ALE metric be given. An immortal Ricci flow is a Ricci flow defined on a time interval extending to +∞+\infty.

Bryant-quotient conjecture. There exist immortal Ricci flows approaching any quotient of Bryant's steady soliton by a subgroup of SU⁡(2)\operatorname{SU}(2), bubbling off any hyperkähler Ricci-flat ALE metric.

The conjecture echoes the paper's four-dimensional constructions and proposes a broad existence theory for immortal flows with orbifold soliton limits and ALE bubbles.

References

Primary source

Alix Deruelle and Tristan Ozuch, “Orbifold singularity formation along ancient and immortal Ricci flows”, arXiv:2410.16075 (2025).

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