Existence of smooth ancient Kähler–Ricci flows desingularizing orbifold shrinking solitons

Let (M4,g,f)(M^4,g,f) be a Kähler Ricci shrinking soliton orbifold singular at pop_o, with singularity group in U(2)U(2). Desingularization conjecture. There exists a smooth ancient Kähler–Ricci flow whose tangent soliton at -\infty is (M4,g,f)(M^4,g,f). This conjecture proposes that orbifold singularities of four-dimensional Kähler Ricci shrinking solitons can arise as backward tangent solitons of smooth ancient flows, complementing the study of orbifold singularities as models for finite-time Ricci-flow singularities. The supplied context discusses stability of such orbifold singularities but gives no resolution of this existence claim.

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Keaton Naff and Tristan Ozuch, “Linear stability and instability of Kähler Ricci solitons”, arXiv:2511.15885 (2025).

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