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Chen's conjecture on smooth long-time existence of the Calabi flow

Theorem 1.1: there is a smooth U(10)U(10)-invariant Kahler form ω0\omega_0 on CP10\mathbb{CP}^{10} in the Fubini-Study class whose maximal smooth Calabi flow exists only on [0,T∗)[0,T_*) with 0<T∗<∞0<T_*<\infty, and at a point pp the scalar curvature blows up like a(T∗−t)−1/2a(T_*-t)^{-1/2}. Since the class contains the cscK Fubini-Study metric, smooth global existence fails even there. Corollary 1.2 gives finite-time singularities in every complex dimension n≥10n\ge10 on CP10×CPn−10\mathbb{CP}^{10}\times\mathbb{CP}^{n-10}. Not shown: anything in complex dimensions 2 to 9, or about weak (Streets, Berman-Darvas-Lu) flows, which continue to exist.

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Theorem 1.1: there is a smooth U(10)U(10)-invariant Kahler form ω0\omega_0 on CP10\mathbb{CP}^{10} in the Fubini-Study class whose maximal smooth Calabi flow exists only on [0,T∗)[0,T_*) with 0<T∗<∞0<T_*<\infty, and at a point pp the scalar curvature blows up like a(T∗−t)−1/2a(T_*-t)^{-1/2}. Since the class contains the cscK Fubini-Study metric, smooth global existence fails even there. Corollary 1.2 gives finite-time singularities in every complex dimension n≥10n\ge10 on CP10×CPn−10\mathbb{CP}^{10}\times\mathbb{CP}^{n-10}. Not shown: anything in complex dimensions 2 to 9, or about weak (Streets, Berman-Darvas-Lu) flows, which continue to exist. parent of this event

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