102 29. COMPACT 2-DIMENSIONAL ANCIENT SOLUTIONS
9.2. A concentration-compactness result.
The following is a concentration-compactness-type or bubbling-type result. In
view of the geometric perspective, note that the area form of t he pull-back g(t)
of g(t) to IR^2 is u(t)dμeuc and a lso that the Cohn-Vossen inequ ality says t hat for
a complete noncompact Riemannian surface (M^2 , g) with positive curvature, we
have JM R 9 dμ 9 ~ 47r. Throughout t his subsection, all balls are with respect to t h e
Euclidean metric on JR^2.
LEMMA 29.33 (u unbounded implies a concentration of integral of curvature).
Suppose that u 00 (0) < oo and let z 0 E IR^2 , r > 0, and c > 0. Then there exists a
constant C = C(lzol, r,c,u 00 (0),umin(-l)) such that if
( Rg(t)il(t)dμeuc ~ 47r - c
} Bz 0 (r)
at some t E (-oo, -1], th en at this time t we have
u(t) ~ e^0 in Bz 0 (r/2).
REMARK 29.34. In the case of a round 2-sphere shrinking to a point at time 0,
we h ave by (29.6) that
- 8 ltl
u(r,B,t)=( 2 ) 2.
l+r
In this case, u 00 (r, B) = oo. Moreover,
1 1
r l67r 87rr^2
Rg(t)il(t)dμeuc = ( 2 ) 2 rdr = -- 2 ·
Bo(r) o 1 + r 1 + r
So we cannot simply remove the condition u 00 (0) < oo from t he hypothesis of the
lemma.
PROOF OF LEMMA 29.33. Let w be the unique solution to
-.6.eucW = R9u in Bz 0 (r),
w = 0 on 8Bz 0 (r).
By Lemma 28.50 we have that for each o E (0 , 47r),
(29. 10 3)
1 (
o lw(x)I ) d l67r
2
r
2
exp μ euc < ---.
Bz 0 (r) llR9ullL1(Bz 0 (r)) - 47r - 0
Since I IR9ul lu (Bza (r)) ~ 47r - c from the hypothesis, by choosing o = 47r - ~, we
h ave
(29.104)
1
qlw(x)ld 327r2r2
e μ euc ~
Bz 0 (r) €
for some q;:::: 88 ;~ 2 ° 0 > l. By Jensen's inequ ality we h ave
(29.105)
1
I w - id μ euc ~ 7rT2 - 1 ( n -^1 2 1 e qlwl dμeuc )
Bz 0 (r) q 1rT Bza (r)
~ 7rr^2 87r- 2c 1 ( 327r). C( )
8
n - =;= r , c.
7r - € €