Convergence of complete Ricci-βat manifolds

This thesis is focused on the convergence at inαnity of complete Ricci βat manifolds. In the αrst part of this thesis, we will give a natural way to identify between two scales, potentially arbitrarily far apart, in the case when a tangent cone at inαnity has smooth cross section. The identiαcation map is given as the gradient βow of a solution to an elliptic equation. We use an estimate of Colding-Minicozzi of a functional that measures the distance to the tangent cone. In the second part of this thesis, we prove a matrix Harnack inequality for the Laplace equation on manifolds with suitable curvature and volume growth assumptions, which is a pointwise estimate for the integrand of the aforementioned functional. This result provides an elliptic analogue of matrix Harnack inequalities for the heat equation or geometric βows.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Park, Jiewon.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Tobias Holck Colding.

• Mathematics.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126935

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/126935