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We present two new conditions to extend the Ricci flow on a compact manifold over a finite time, which are improvements of some known extension theorems.
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The author would like to thank his advisor Peter Li for his advising, encouragement, and generous support. The author would also like to thank Jeffrey Streets for many useful suggestions and all his help in preparing this paper, and Guoyi Xu for helpful discussions.
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Communicated by Jiaping Wang.
This research was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0801988.
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He, F. Remarks on the Extension of the Ricci Flow. J Geom Anal 24, 81–91 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-012-9327-z
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