Some integral curvature estimates for the Ricci flow in four dimensions

We consider solutions $(M^4 , g(t)), 0 \leq t \lt T$, to Ricci flow on compact, four-dimensional manifolds without boundary. We prove integral curvature estimates which are valid for any such solution. In the case that the scalar curvature is bounded and $T \lt \infty$, we show that these estimates imply that the (spatial) integral of the square of the norm of the Riemannian curvature is bounded by a constant independent of time $t$ for all $0 \leq t \lt T$ and that the space time integral over $M \times [0, T)$ of the fourth power of the norm of the Ricci curvature is bounded.

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The author gratefully acknowledges the support of SFB TR71 and SPP 2026 of the DFG (German Research Foundation) and the University of Freiburg, where a part of this work was carried out.

Received 14 June 2016

Accepted 8 March 2018

Published 6 July 2020