On the stability of Ricci flow on hyperbolic 3-manifolds of finite volume

Abstract

On a hyperbolic 3-manifold of finite volume, we prove that if the initial metric is sufficiently close to the hyperbolic metric $h_0$, then the normalized Ricci-DeTurck flow exists for all time and converges exponentially fast to $h_0$ in a weighted Hölder norm. A key ingredient of our approach is the application of interpolation theory. Furthermore, this result is a valuable tool for investigating minimal surface entropy, which quantifies the growth rate of the number of closed minimal surfaces in terms of genus. We explore this in [17].