{"paper":{"title":"Convergence of the conical Ricci flow on S2 to a soliton","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math.CV"],"primary_cat":"math.DG","authors_text":"D.H. Phong, Jacob Sturm, Jian Song, Xiaowei Wang","submitted_at":"2015-03-15T23:03:11Z","abstract_excerpt":"In our previous work [PSSW], we showed that the Ricci flow on S^2 whose initial metric has conical singularities \\sum_{j=1}^k \\beta_j[p_j] converges to a constant curvature metric with conic singularities (in the stable and semi-stable cases) or to a gradient shrinking soliton with conical singularities (in the unstable case). The purpose of this note is to show that in the unstable case, that is, the case where \\beta_k>\\beta_k'=\\s_{j<k}\\beta_j, that the limiting metric is the unique shrinking soliton with cone singularity \\beta_k[p_\\infty]+\\beta_k'[q_\\infty]. This verifies the prediction made"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1503.04488","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}