Ancient solutions to the Ricci flow in dimension $3$
Ancient solutions to the Ricci flow in dimension $3$
brendle in time, starting from time tk .As long as the solution is nearly rotationally symmetric, it will remain close to the Bryant soliton by Theorem 1.1.On the other hand, as long as the cap is close to the Bryant soliton, we are able to show that the symmetry improves …