Curvature Blow-up in Doubly-warped Product Metrics Evolving by Ricci Flow

Abstract

For any manifold $N^p$ admitting an Einstein metric with positive Einstein constant, we study the behavior of the Ricci flow on high-dimensional products $M=N^p\times S^{q+1}$ with doubly-warped product metrics. In particular, we provide a rigorous construction of local, type II, conical singularity formation on such spaces. It is shown that for any $k>1$ there exists a solution with curvature blow-up rate $\Vert Rm{\Vert }_{\infty }(t)\gtrsim (T-t{)}^{-k}$ with singularity modeled on a Ricci-flat cone at parabolic scales.

134 pages. Comments welcome