A NOTE ON THE COMPACTNESS THEOREM FOR 4d RICCI SHRINKERS

In arXiv:1005.3255 we proved an orbifold Cheeger-Gromov compactness theorem for complete 4d Ricci shrinkers with a lower bound for the entropy, an upper bound for the Euler characterisic, and a lower bound for the gradient of the potential at large distances. In this note, we show that the last two assumptions in fact can be removed. The key ingredient is a recent estimate of Cheeger-Naber arXiv:1406.6534

ϵ\epsilon-Regularity and Structure of 4-dimensional Shrinking Ricci Solitons

A closed four dimensional manifold cannot possess a non-flat Ricci soliton metric with arbitrarily small $L^2$-norm of the curvature. In this paper, we localize this fact in the case of shrinking Ricci solitons by proving an $\varepsilon$-regularity theorem, thus confirming a conjecture of Cheeger-Tian. As applications, we will also derive structural results concerning the degeneration of the metrics on a family of complete non-compact four dimensional shrinking Ricci solitons without a uniform entropy lower bound. In the appendix, we provide a detailed account of the equivariant good chopping theorem when collapsing with locally bounded curvature happens

Rigidity and {\epsilon}-regularity theorems of Ricci shrinkers

In this paper, we study the rigidity and {\epsilon}-regularity theorems of Ricci shrinkers. First we prove the rigidity of the asymptotic volume ratio and local volume around a base point of a non-compact Ricci shrinker. Next we obtain some {\epsilon}-regularity theorems of local entropy and curvature, which improve the previous corresponding results essentially and use them to study the structure of Ricci shrinkers at infinity. Especially, if the curvature of a non-compact Ricci shrinker satisfies some natural integral conditions, then it is asymptotic to a cone.Comment: 31 paper