Contracting exceptional divisors by the Kähler-Ricci flow II

Abstract

We investigate the case of the Kahler-Ricci flow blowing down disjoint exceptional divisors with normal bundle O(-k) to orbifold points. We prove smooth convergence outside the exceptional divisors and global Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. In addition, we establish the result that the Gromov-Hausdorff limit coincides with the metric completion of the limiting metric under the flow. This improves and extends the previous work of the authors. We apply this to P^1-bundles which are higher-dimensional analogues of the Hirzebruch surfaces. In addition, we consider the case of a minimal surface of general type with only distinct irreducible (-2)-curves and show that solutions to the normalized Kahler-Ricci flow converge in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to a Kahler-Einstein orbifold.

arXiv comment40 pages, v2 includes now a detailed proof of the identification of the GH limit with the metric completion

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