Böhm–Lafuente's dynamical Alekseevskii conjecture

Let MM be a homogeneous space of dimension nn, and call a Ricci flow on MM immortal if it exists for all positive times tt. The universal cover of MM is the simply connected covering space of MM.

Dynamical Alekseevskii conjecture. If a homogeneous space has an immortal Ricci flow, then its universal cover is diffeomorphic to Rn\mathbb{R}^n.

Lafuente proved the converse implication: if the universal cover of a homogeneous space is diffeomorphic to Rn\mathbb{R}^n, then its Ricci flow is immortal. The conjecture is the dynamical version of the Alekseevskii conjecture, which states that a simply connected homogeneous negative-Einstein space is diffeomorphic to Rn\mathbb{R}^n; the paper's abstract says that the conjecture is proved in dimension five.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Maher Billon, “The dynamical Alekseevskii conjecture in dimension five”, arXiv:2507.17781 (2025).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.