Conjectural unboundedness of third covariant Ricci derivatives along Kähler–Ricci flow
Conjectural unboundedness of third covariant Ricci derivatives along Kähler–Ricci flow
Let be a compact Kähler manifold with semiample canonical bundle, and let be an immortal normalized Kähler–Ricci flow on . Let be the associated Iitaka fibration, let denote its singular-fiber locus, and let be compact. Write for the third covariant derivative of the Ricci curvature with respect to .
Unboundedness conjecture. Under the assumptions above, the quantity
is in general not bounded over .
The conjecture concerns the failure of uniform higher-order Ricci estimates away from singular fibers. The source explicitly identifies the boundedness question near singular fibers as open, but does not state a general resolution of this conjecture.
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Primary source
Wenrui Kong, “Higher-order Ricci estimates along immortal Kähler-Ricci flows”, arXiv:2603.24380 (2026).
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