Existence and applications of Ricci flows via pseudolocality

Abstract

We prove the short-time existence of Ricci flows on complete manifolds with scalar curvature bounded below uniformly, Ricci curvature bounded below by a negative quadratic function, and with almost Euclidean isoperimetric inequality holds locally. In particular, this result applies to manifolds with both Ricci curvature and injectivity radius bounded from below. We also study the short-time behaviour of these solutions which may have unbounded curvature at the initial time, and provide some applications. A key tool is Perelman's pseudolocality theorem.