Blowup criteria for geometric flows on surfaces

Abstract

Utilizing a splitting of geometric flows on surfaces introduced by Buzano and Rupflin, we present a general scheme to prove blow up criteria for such geometric flows. A vital ingredient is a new compactness theorem for families of metrics on surfaces with a uniform bound on their volumes, square integrals of their curvatures and injectivity radii. In particular we prove blow up criteria for the harmonic Ricci flow and for the spinor flow on surfaces.