Convergence and stability of locally \mathbb{R}^{N}-invariant solutions of Ricci flow

Dan Knopf

Published 2007-11-24, updated 2009-03-05Version 2

Important models for immortal solutions of Ricci flow that collapse with bounded curvature come from locally G-invariant solutions on principal bundles, where G is a nilpotent Lie group. In this paper, we establish convergence and asymptotic stability, modulo smooth finite-dimensional center manifolds, of certain R^{N}-invariant solutions. When the dimension of the total space is three, these results are relevant to work of Lott classifying the asymptotic behavior of all 3-dimensional Ricci flow solutions whose sectional curvatures and diameters are respectively O(t^{-1}) and O(t^{1/2}).