Stability of compact Ricci solitons under Ricci flow

Stability of compact Ricci solitons under Ricci flow

In this paper we establish stability results for Ricci solitons under the Ricci flow, i.e. small perturbations of the Ricci soliton result in small variations in the solution under Ricci flow.

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