Dynamical (in)stability of Ricci-flat ALE metrics along Ricci flow

Abstract

We study the stability and instability of ALE Ricci-flat metrics around which a Lojasiewicz inequality is satisfied for a variation of Perelman's $\lambda$-functional adapted to the ALE situation and denoted $\lambda_{\operatorname{ALE}}$. This functional was introduced by the authors in a recent work and it has been proven that it satisfies a good enough Lojasiewicz inequality at least in neighborhoods of integrable ALE Ricci-flat metrics in dimension larger than or equal to 5.