Classification conjecture for ancient asymptotically cylindrical 4-dimensional Ricci flows

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Consider an ancient asymptotically cylindrical 4-dimensional Ricci flow, meaning a Ricci flow existing for all sufficiently negative times and asymptotic at negative infinity to a cylindrical model. Classification conjecture for ancient asymptotically cylindrical 4-dimensional Ricci flows. Any ancient asymptotically cylindrical 4d Ricci flow is, up to scaling, either R×S3\mathbb{R}\times S^3, R2×S2\mathbb{R}^2\times S^2, or one of the steadies or ovals listed in the classification conjecture for 4-dimensional Ricci-flow κ\kappa-solutions. This is presented as a more ambitious generalization of the preceding classification conjecture and remains open; the source mentions partial progress for steady solitons asymptotic to R×S3\mathbb{R}\times S^3.

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Primary source

Robert Haslhofer, “Mean curvature flow through singularities”, arXiv:2510.01355 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2311.09405, arXiv:2308.01448.

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