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

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.

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

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